Trade Card for Incubators, Sure Hatch Incubator Co., circa 1910

Summary

Writing with a quill, metal nib or fountain pen could be messy. Ink could smear or smudge with the slightest touch. In America by the late 1800s absorbent paper blotters became the preferred method to soak up wet ink. Companies produced small inexpensive blotters as advertisements and giveaways well into the twentieth century.

Writing with a quill, metal nib or fountain pen could be messy. Ink could smear or smudge with the slightest touch. In America by the late 1800s absorbent paper blotters became the preferred method to soak up wet ink. Companies produced small inexpensive blotters as advertisements and giveaways well into the twentieth century.

Artifact

Trade card

Date Made

circa 1910

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

90.0.281.101

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Lithography

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 3.5 in

Width: 6.25 in

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