Featured Sterling Stamp Roller Something

Discussion in 'Silver' started by vitry-le-francois, Nov 26, 2022.

  1. vitry-le-francois

    vitry-le-francois Well-Known Member

    Not exactly sure what this item is. Measures 3 inches wide. Has a half round pink-ish cotton-ish fabric-ish bottom. Whatcha think?

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  2. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

  3. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Faster than me as usual. :)
     
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    i need help Moderator Moderator

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  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Would have been part of a desk set.

    Debora
     
  6. vitry-le-francois

    vitry-le-francois Well-Known Member

    Why does ink need blotting?
     
  7. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Until the introduction and roll-out of the BIC ballpoint pen in the 1950s and 1960s, everyone used fountain pens which began to be mass-produced in the 1880s. They required both filling and blotting. And before that, people used dip pens which, by definition didn't require filling, but also required blotting.

    Debora
     
  9. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Unless someone younger borrowed Vitry's user ID, he's been around long enough to know that. ;)
     
  10. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Apologies. I if I mis-understood his comment.

    Debora
     
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  11. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I get your point...but considering he didn't know what the thing was....it stands to reason...he was unaware of what it was used for, also...!;)

    just sayin....:playful::sorry:
     
  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Vitry is 57, so I think he was born when ballpoint pens were already used at schools.
    I learned to write with an old-fashioned pen, and a desk with an in-built inkwell. Later I got a fountain pen and ballpoint set.
     
  13. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I had and used a desk blotter and fountain pens.
     
  14. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    Those early ballpoints could leak like a sieve as well.
     
  15. Lark

    Lark Well-Known Member

    Just for clarification for Vitry, ink dried slowly so to avoid smudging one would either have to let it sit before handling it or sprinkle the page with a fine sand. Around mid 1800's blotting paper was invented but many still used sand especially in England and Europe long after that. That one may have never been used or the blotting paper replaced which had to be done from time to time.
     
  16. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Fountain pen collector & user of many years here.

    Yes, we still use rocker blotters. Yes you can still buy the paper.

    I've got a lifetime's supply of the stuff in my closet. Enough to paper my entire bedroom wall, and the ceiling to boot.

    What you've got there is a very handsome silver model. People pay a lot of money of those things. Most people just have the simple wooden or brass ones, but they were made of all kinds of things.

    I have a Montblanc rocker blotter on my desk.
     
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  17. vitry-le-francois

    vitry-le-francois Well-Known Member

    LOL, thanks for all the fun comments :)
     
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  18. vitry-le-francois

    vitry-le-francois Well-Known Member


    LOL, I was trying to keep that a secret!
     
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  19. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    :joyful:
     
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