Check this "interesting" design patent for an ornamental design for ink wells by Mr. Ralph B. Head:

US Design Patent # 43613

IMHO it should have been marketed as a nib-flushing device rather than an inkwell.

R. B. Head?

That has got to be made up.

John

Sure, why not? When I was in college, I used to pass a house that had just the bowl out in the front yard with flowers in it.

I really wouldnt mind having one of those

Brown ink would be appropriate (or Yellow ink?)

Does the ink swirl clockwise or counter-clockwise in that inkwell when it is "down under?"

..and do the alligators mentioned in OldGriz's topic come out of these ones too?

Teeny, tiny alligators. . .

they prefer green ink.

John