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I saw this in a post by Denis Richard. Is this a sort of writer's caddy?

 

I don't know what this is called, but I WANT ONE!

 

Thanks,

 

Jason

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/jazzmankc/post-8-1139245486.jpg

Jason Weaver

Kansas City

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That's a lap desk - common antique.

 

I've probably got 8 or 10 of them. Probably getting a bit harder to find and more expensive (got all mine back in the days when I was haunting antique auctions for clocks).

Bill Spohn

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I find it easier to write on a flat terrain, rather than a sloping one.

 

Really? I was thinking that the slope might make it easier. I will have to experiment before I go on the quest.

 

Bill S - If I do end up liking it, would you consider thinning the herd? :)

Jason Weaver

Kansas City

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I do want a nice one someday. There's even a number of them findable via google, I just searched on: lap desk -laptop

 

Modern ones seem to cost as low as about $150. I'm sure they go way up from there... :-)

-- Joel -- "I collect expensive and time-consuming hobbies."

 

INK (noun): A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water,

chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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You'll also find them called writing boxes. Mine is ebony inlaid with mother of pearl and dates to the 1880's.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/writing_box.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/PIC_0016.jpg

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You'll also find them called writing boxes. Mine is ebony inlaid with mother of pearl and dates to the 1880's.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/writing_box.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/carrieh/PIC_0016.jpg

:blink: WOAH!! :blink:

 

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

 

Um...Carrie...

 

Clears throat...did you know that my birthday is coming up on the 24th.....wink wink, nudge nudge. B)

 

Dennis

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