A Vintage Ink Bottle

[deepak23]

This is an ink bottle that is at least 60 years old. These bottles were very common up to the 40s in India and school boys used to carry these along with their dip pens to school. The inward curved edges prevented ink from spilling out even if the bottle tipped over. These vanished with the advent of the 'fountain' pen. This particular bottle (carefully preserved by my father-in-law all these years) had 60 years worth of ink dried in it and took a lot of soaking to get it into this form.

 

 

 

Edit - Typos...

Edited January 6, 2015 by deepak23

[Ernst Bitterman]

This forum needs a LIKE button; I have no sensible comment, but admiration abounds.

[mwpannell]

Right, EB. Still, I will say, even with the clever curved edges, I can't imagine my grade-school friends and I carrying those around without major incident. I suppose there were plenty of mishaps (or intended catastrophes) among your grandfather's mates, depak23. Thanks for showing that off.

Edited January 6, 2015 by mwpannell

[deepak23]

Inkcidents were pretty common as per him. But considering that most inks were 'washable' they all managed without much heartburn.