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Posted 1 year ago
MartzGee
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Please can anyone help me to identify the origins of this 'Knight's Tomb' inkwell?
I suspect it has some age as there is an old label on the base with a quote from a S.T Coleridge poem and a date '1947' underneath the quote.
The body of the inkwell is gold coloured with a darker base metal showing through from wear. The inside of the lid is lined with red velvet. There are tow glass liners on either side of a small brush. The inkwell is mounted on a dark wooden base with a hand written label, please see photograph for full detail.
I purchased the inkwell a few months ago from a house clearance shop in Islington, London, and I am intrigued to find out more about it and hope you bcan help?
Kind regards
Martin Gee
InkwellsInkwells are as old as the written word. The first inkwells were probably j…
Ballad of the Knights Tomb, also see Ivanhoe, Chap. VIII
S.T Coleridge, also in Castle Dangerous, Chap. IX