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<p>[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 436178, member: 8569"]No more to say than my predecessors, just a technical precision, this is an overcast item, it was in a past time an original inkwell of good quality, Napoleon III in taste(no traces for an older system like holes for natural pens), and somebody at the first quarter oof the 20th century makes a copy, not by an electrical process which gives the best results, no wax copy, but a cheaper sand casting process, and after gilding less as possible, your inkwell is born…[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 436178, member: 8569"]No more to say than my predecessors, just a technical precision, this is an overcast item, it was in a past time an original inkwell of good quality, Napoleon III in taste(no traces for an older system like holes for natural pens), and somebody at the first quarter oof the 20th century makes a copy, not by an electrical process which gives the best results, no wax copy, but a cheaper sand casting process, and after gilding less as possible, your inkwell is born…[/QUOTE]
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