There's a few companies that still make inkwells. I think it's more as a pretty ink-storage device to keep on one's desk, rather than anything else.
There is actually another MB pen which is even SMALLER than this, which is the MB 114 (commonly called the 'Mozart'). It's absolutely TINY, but...
I've been selling a LOT of stuff lately, so it's perfectly OK for me to add another pen to my collection...right? This diminutive Montblanc 144...
Boulle stuff is absolutely beautiful, but from what I've read, it's almost impossible (or very difficult) to maintain. Since Tortoiseshell is a...
Perhaps a seal handle, missing the brass seal at the end?
They're called various things. Bureau, Drop-front desk, Slant-top desk. I always called them bureaus or drop-front/slant-tops. I always...
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They're called "smoker's knives" for fairly obvious reasons. I have a friend who collects stuff like this :P They're pretty fun objects.
The thing on the right is a cigar-cutter. The thing on the left is for cleaning out a pipe and tamping down fresh tobacco before lighting it.
My "Sleepers" are... [ATTACH] Ball Railroad Chronometer Pocketwatch (Ca. 1950). RRP: $500 - $1,000+, depending on where you get it from. I paid:...
I have known people to turn those old dressers into couches/sofas. They chop the top off, remove the drawers, and then they put in a new...
I thought it was a samovar tray! But your thing is much better!
We're breeding out of control!!!
They look like Chinese sauce-plates. You know, those things for soy sauce, vinegar, and chili...
I like Dan Brown books, so I would definitely buy one, if it was one I didn't already have. But I CERTAINLY agree with 50 Shades series. I...
Straits Chinese cooking and desserts is not something you can do in an hour. It takes all day to do stuff like that. I've been doing it since I...
It may also be for storing chopsticks.
Definitely a Chinese cake/bun mold. My mother's got loads of these for making various dessert-cakes. Half of them she doesn't even use, but...
Silver cigarette case, made in Birmingham in 1927. The [A. ...] is supposed to be the maker's mark, which is usually, two initials. so it'll be...
Any indicators that it ever hung on a wall? Nail-holes, screw-holes, hooks, etc? I find it strange that all the slats are different sizes &...
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