# Sketchbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 24, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335 "2006-01-24T00:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickles)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/1 "2006-01-24T00:44:05Z")
I know this is a little off-topic, but ya’ll are just so darned smart. My teacher gave me this sketcbook earlier today… I really like it and I’d like to buy a bigger one like it. The only problem is I don’t know the brand name. [Does this look familliar to anyone? / Is there any way you know how I can find out?](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Burritolady/1019.png) The guy who owned this before me has since passed away. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/2 "2006-01-24T00:53:57Z")
It looks to me like it might be quite old. Maybe decades old; the illustration and text on the cover is what? 1950s style? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/3 "2006-01-24T00:55:08Z")
I’d be really surprised if this is still being produced or sold. Judging from the lettering and especially the illustration, my WAG is that it’s really old, probably from the '30s or '40s. But I’d guess your local art supply store would have something similar. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/4 "2006-01-24T00:59:01Z")
Take it with you to an art supply store - not a Michael’s or other such ilk - but a genuine art supply store, perhaps near a college. The sketchbook you scanned looks old - the style of illustration, lettering, and the yellowing of the cover. Most likely, it was made a long, long time ago. However, you should be able to find something of a satisfactory size with similar paper. ---
**Author:** ![Nickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickles)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/5 "2006-01-24T01:04:26Z")
Thanks a lot! 🙂 I’m assuming it was old, this was from a cleaned out school-supply closet. I guess it was one of the teachers’ before he passed away. Theres actually a pretty good art supply store near here, I’ll take it to them. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/6 "2006-01-24T01:06:42Z")
Is it used at all? You know it could actually be quite valuable if it is still completely blank. Quite aside from honest buyers, forgers of historical documents are always on the lookout for old, blank paper. OK, it’s not _ancient_, but it might be old enough for, say, an ersatz letter from Winston Churchill. ---
**Author:** ![Nickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickles)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sketchbook/341335/7 "2006-01-24T01:10:37Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Is it used at all? You know it could actually be quite valuable if it is still completely blank. Quite aside from honest buyers, forgers of historical documents are always on the lookout for old, blank paper. OK, it’s not _ancient_, but it might be old enough for, say, an ersatz letter from Winston Churchill. No, it wasn’t used but there may have been some pages torn out because it does seem pretty thin.