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Today we stood up in a crowded auction 2 full hours for this...the only reason we were there.

€80 and 20% auction house cost for the thing...@ €100 or $150.

 

1900 German, what they call Historismus or Grunderzeit....a return to the past, various elements of the Renaissance or Baroque times, mixed in that "Old Fashioned Styles) (sort of showing your family had left overs from previous generations that it didn't (trying to show one was not just a Jumped Up Jones, when one was.)....the original Shabby Schick. Big in Germany from @ 1870-1910.

Cast iron flower motive over a bed of points...glass ink well with smaller than the well round inserts, that fit into the frame. So the wells seem to sit on it, but the underside sits in it.

H 14.5 (5 1/3") x B 30.5(12") depth 22 (8 1/2").

 

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In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Congratulations on your successful bid. That's lovely.

I came here for the pictures and stayed for the conversation.

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That's gorgeous. I would never have guessed it to be cast iron, though -- is it silverplated?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Not silver plated, my wife who is a mechanical draftsman and learned the basics of metal in a factory...as apprentice draftsman, says it's cast iron.

The back is screwed to the front with a tongue.

More than likely sand cast...IMO.The detail work is so nice.

Cast iron need not be black...see Ping golf clubs...

 

Out side of laying a Pelikan 35ml bottle next to the wells, I've not filled anything. But think it will fill from 50-70ml.

That was for back in the day where one had only a couple of colors of ink...black, blue, blue-black, purple and red. Normally one used a blue or black and a red...for business reasons.

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In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Wow, that's beautiful!

Find my homemade ink recipes on my Flickr page here.

 

"I don't wait for inspiration; inspiration waits for me." --Akiane Kramarik

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Not silver plated, my wife who is a mechanical draftsman and learned the basics of metal in a factory...as apprentice draftsman, says it's cast iron.

The back is screwed to the front with a tongue.

More than likely sand cast...IMO.The detail work is so nice.

Cast iron need not be black...see Ping golf clubs...

 

Out side of laying a Pelikan 35ml bottle next to the wells, I've not filled anything. But think it will fill from 50-70ml.

That was for back in the day where one had only a couple of colors of ink...black, blue, blue-black, purple and red. Normally one used a blue or black and a red...for business reasons.

 

 

Cast iron can be that silver color. Huh. Learn something new everyday.

Thanks for the information.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Gorgeous!

 

You are very lucky.

Is it fair for an intelligent and family oriented mammal to be separated from his/her family and spend his/her life starved in a concrete jail?

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Very nice Bo Bo and I too thought that it was silver plated.

Someone put a lot of fine work into that.

Hex, aka George

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