These are a few of my favorite things... Kralik inkwells and other desktop knick-knacks that bring me joy every day...

[Bo Bo Olson]

As an ex-bartender, I'd guess the white cup at 2/3rds a shot glass, but the black white tipped insert, will be odd. 1/2 a shot of ink.

If the ink is filled one can  or will be able to fill a  long nib. If the ink is lower , narrower shorter nibs can be filled. .

There will need more care in filling the ink than I had thought.

Ink will seep around and up the black insert. for a clean fill.

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Before it's brought out to play, my wife the mechanical draftsman, trained in the machine shop for 3 years, will add a small simple one wire latch to the front of the top. *** If you click you can see the small holes of a missing lifter. Where I might have been able to fake something, I'll let her fake it better.

Click a couple times to see the holes.

 

*** First things first, the next two weeks is making dough, sticking it in the refrigerator for 24 hours....for 8-9 types of Christmas Cookies. (We have a large supply of small, medium and large round, square and rectangular tin cans.)

There are a couple non-relative folks, other than me, that wait the whole year for my wife's grand  Christmas Cookies.....in my wife absolutely refuses to make Easter Cookies.

In she's not American, I can't get her to make 4th of July Cookies either.

[Anne-Sophie]

 

I can see the holes for the lifter.

 

It is great to be married to someone who can engineer a piece for a desk accessory and bake first class cookies!

[PenTurnt]

Thank you for the dopamine hit! I think you're absolutely right in your assertion that patina makes the piece that much more beautiful.  You look at it and ask, "Where have you been?" 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Newest...and for only €10.

The inserts are of the time, and make the whole deal.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Next newest. Art Nouveau inkwell @ 1900. Make Florida, which my wife don't know.

The Geha office holder I've had stuck away for ages. The Loscher some 6 weeks, and the Pelikan is new.

I've had the Pelikan two pen holder for years, but never got around to getting a good picture of it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Inkwell won in the live Auction....Danish designer...got to polish..inkwell not silver. Pick it up on Tuesday.

Spoon is the Danish designer, serving heavy spoon.

[Misfit]

@mana your desk accessories are indeed very lovely. I can see how they bring you joy. 
 

Same goes for @Bo Bo Olson and his desk accessories. All are very lovely. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Right place, right time, and a wife who spots them.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Is a vase, not an pen holder....Is out of an invented antimony, lead and copper patented mix. Both parts of the lot are from well known Danish '30's designers. The spoon from 1935 by Poul C. Lutken Frigast, the vase from Just Andersen.

[RedPie]

Great Geha and Pelikan finds you have there! @Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thank you, I didn't chase them, they fell into my hands the Geha about a decade ago both round ones with in a month of each other,the Pelikan one last week.

 

Seeing I collect inkwells, there are lots of smaller things too. Like Petschaft's in German, wax stampers, more or less in English. and I'm missing my 835 pierced silver one....got to make a picture of it sometime.

 

Also got to go to a shop I know of and get my initials engraved on the bottom, instead of others. Been saying that for a decade.

Oh, then I have to write letters just to use them.

 

The pen cup, is a top missing Meissen mustard jar..the saucer is attached to the body, from 1775 or so. The inkwell set to the back and the pen holder are Meissen from just before Pfeiffer time and into it...1924-32.

Some letter openers. Some like the Stamps/Petschaft's came with the marble inkwells sets.

My letter openers. The antique celluloid (fake tortoise) one, the ball in the eagle's claw rotates.

A nice wooden burl pencil, pen holder, got a few of them..not burl of course. Have three or four, not quite as pretty as this one.

This burl veneered ceder lined Cigar box was one of my first pen boxes, now has etuie's in it. I do like burl wood or it's veneers.

[RedPie]

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Also got to go to a shop I know of and get my initials engraved on the bottom, instead of others. Been saying that for a decade.

Oh, then I have to write letters just to use them.

You would be happy to have at least one with your initials...even if you don't write letters and seal them or stamp them.... 😊 Your collection is very nice!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thank you.

Decade and more of Flea markets, live auctions....out side of pens, not on Ebay.

In the States keep your eye out for Esterbrook inkwells.

 

And any inkwell you buy HAS TO HAVE AN INSERT, be it glass or ceramic, something to take out and clean...

They were neat freaks back then. The work in metal was much nicer on the real, than modern fake Indian, or Moroccan 'Victorian' inkwells.

 

For inkwell inserts, fromEngland  figure very high postage, and precisely measured by you...inserts cost 15 pounds.

I had thought I found a glasshutte, where I bought the decanter with in a couple hours drive, but it went broke.

 

I do find 15 pounds for an English bit of glass, a bit too high. If I can't find a local 'street fest glass burner'...means I got to go to street fests..) so will see if I can find a glasblowing factory/Glasshutte in the Czech Republic. I like the food and beer. Twenty years ago before I started collecting inkwells, I could have found 4-5 with in 3 hours autobahn speed.

(I am well known for being cheap at the wrong time or place.)

 

The two tall decanters to the rear, right under the clock, one cost €25 in a used  junk store, the other I got at a Black Forest glasshutte, for €250. The more expensive one is better...the other is very much OK ... but still. It was a place to leave a small fortune.

 

Heavy cut crystal is no longer the mode. Sadly.

 

I do print out and cut out which booze is in which decanter....just pewter or porcelain chained labels of  Bourbon, Whiskey, Scotch or Rum, is not very precise when one has a few of each. ....got to get a 3D printer...just joking....paper strip on the bottom is good enough.

[RedPie]

Nice collection at your bar @Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

The other  'bar' on the other side of the couch, has 3-4 small decanters, 5-6 whiskey bottles on top,(a couple wife items..a delicate vase etc.

and is filled underneath, and one of the better ones on top, I can really recommend is a 12 year old The GlenDronach aged in sherry casks. that makes such a difference in taste.

 

They have a 'give away' market on Internet in Germany, and that was exactly what I wanted. but was totally ignorant of it's worth.

At home giving it some Old English furniture oil, I came across it was designed by a Danish designer.  We looked him up. On Ebay alone, some were cheap at €500, many others at €1,000-1,500.

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Up to when we drove to Scotland by ferry and wrong sided roads, I had been a better driver in the mountains than my wife. But Alas...they have a whiskey trail, from one whiskey distillery to the next. And now my wife is a better driver than me...even in my Masada MX-5; that I got rid of after only 22 years. (6 gear...straight rising to the end torque curve), got some funny name in the states like the Moth that Ate Tokyo.

 

In Scotland or the lunch pub stop (major industrial meal companies make real good food...better than some of the restaurants I ate at,), I had a little breast pocket Single Malt whiskey book. (In the other pocket I had the famous Micheal Jackson pocket beer book. He was involved in Save the Ale campaign, got flown around the world for beer, whiskey and cognac tastings...of which he wrote books. Mustache and two gloves.)  When I tourist, I am prepared.  For out at hotel bar, or best pub bar in the town when B&Bing, I had my big whiskey book, divided Scotland into some 8-10 localities. I insisted on drinking 'local' whiskeys. If it wasn't The GlenDronach, it was another  sherry keg ripened scotch. That stayed in my mind for decades.

 

In Scotland, they have a bottle of the month club. At a small fishing port on the west coast, my wife was oohing and ahhaing, the thin sliced salmon on the brunch line, I was doing the same to the back bar, where there were some twenty or so of those gray labeled bottles. Instead taking some of the 30 year old one, I took some the 28 year old bottle.

Had I retired to Scotland I'd have a collection of empty bottles, and not pens.

[Bo Bo Olson]

That large gray Bauhaus inkwell, along with my clock (to have the broken marble bottom repaired. And my gray-white inkwell set (to remove chipped corners) were taken to a  tombstone maker. He even sanded it...it will eventually return to this shade, but couldn't get rid of the ink stain. There was no reason to take a after picture...So do be very careful with your ink and a marble inkwell.

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Notice the two little holes in the lid. We tried to set a squared up wire into them but it wouldn't hold well.

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Bauhaus grey one with new handle.

Can't load into imgur, and don't know how to rotate, out of it.

 

[Anne-Sophie]

On 9/7/2024 at 4:40 AM, Bo Bo Olson said:

The Bauhaus grey one with new handle.

Can't load into imgur, and don't know how to rotate, out of it.

 

 

Even upside down, it is gorgeous!

[Anne-Sophie]

On 7/10/2024 at 1:16 PM, Bo Bo Olson said:

Next newest. Art Nouveau inkwell @ 1900. Make Florida, which my wife don't know.

The Geha office holder I've had stuck away for ages. The Loscher some 6 weeks, and the Pelikan is new.

I've had the Pelikan two pen holder for years, but never got around to getting a good picture of it.

 

 

The Art Nouveau inkwell set is a picture of daintiness, I can imagine a lady pouring over the catalogues and ladies fashion magazines and taking note for her next shopping spree.

 

"The Geha office holder I've had stuck away for ages. The Loscher some 6 weeks, and the Pelikan is new." What are they for?

 

Is the Pelikan pen holder above from the 1970's? I saw many of that style in TV series and film but, somehow, they all had a brown or warm green center band, not a blue/teal one like yours.

[Bo Bo Olson]

8 hours ago, Anne-Sophie said:

"The Geha office holder I've had stuck away for ages. The Loscher some 6 weeks, and the Pelikan is new." What are they for?

Holding office or pen stuff. I have nibs in mine.. The Pelikan is empty, the Loscher has three small bullet sized nib holders. Old time MP lead holders could go in them too.

It's too bad I didn't get my wife to make a better picture of the red one, but one don't know until the picture is 'developed' how much is missing. Art Decoish patterns that could be of nibs...if one clicks extra large one could almost see it.

Old A.W. Faber ink bottle at the rear.