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The Blotting Paper Holder / Le Sous-Main Buvard
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the paperfolding design known as The Blotting Paper Holder / Le Sous-Main Buvard. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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1932

As far as I know this design first appears in Booklet 2 of 'Images a Plier', a series of 6 booklets published by Librairie Larousse in Paris in 1932.

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c1936

As 'Portase-cantes' in 'El Plegado de Papel: 4th Cuaderno de Trabajos Manuales', which was published anonymously by J Ortiz in Madrid around 1936.

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1939

The same design also appears in 'El Mundo de Papel' by Dr Nemesio Montero, which was published by G Miranda in Edicions Infancia in Valladolid in 1939.

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1949

The design is also found in 'Au Pays des Mains Agiles', which was published by Editions Fleurus in Paris in 1949, along with a simple variant supplied with a stand and named 'Le Cadre' (The Frame).

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