[Cast Brass Inkwell]
This English cast brass inkwell originally would have held a ceramic ink pot for refilling a dip pen with ink while writing. Dip pens replaced quill pens in the 1820s, and ink-reservoir fountain pens replaced dip pens in the 1880s.
Title | [Cast Brass Inkwell] |
Date | c. 1870s |
Source | Josef Rysan Papers |