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What Is It?
July

Send your answers to the What Is It contest, postmarked by July 20, to the Mountain States Collector, P.O. Box 2525, Evergreen, CO 80437-2525.

Three winners will be drawn from correct entries received. Winners will receive a year’s subscription to the Mountain States Collector.

Answer to What Is It?
JUNE

Everyone of our guesses for the June What Is It identified the object as a desk ink blotter. Our source said it is a paper weight. This particular one has had an outdoor working life. It is six-inch cast-iron engraved weight used to anchor newspapers at a kiosk in New York. Decorative weights like this one are still in use so they are hard to collect. Those with logos of now defunct newspapers are more easily found.

Since these objects could be used as ink blotters, we are going to go ahead and give a year’s subscription to the Mountain States Collector to those who guessed that it was their purpose. Charles Pheasant of Centennial, Colorado sent us a picture of this identical weight that he owns. Anna Turner of Denver, Colorado has an iron collection so she knew what this object was made of. Anna is 90 years old and is offering objects from her iron collection as possible What Is Its for our contest. Since we already had this month’s figured out, we will try to take her up on her offer for the next issue. Jean Helzer of Arvada, Colorado also identified the object as an ink blotter. Thank you all for your guesses.