Antique Accessories

[TheQuillDeal]

Hello FP Network -- Does anyone have knowledge about this folding roller pocket from, I'm guessing, the 1930s?

[KAC]

I've never seen anything like that, but it's nice! Do you know what sort of metal was used?  Any other history?

I have a couple of vintage ink roller/blotters and they're really nice accessories.  

[Christopher Godfrey]

Rather cute, indeed!  Certainly more efficient (<must> be!) than sprinkling <sand> over your parchment!  (When I see that being done in period movies, I always wonder what good it can possibly do -- but I admit to loving seeing the inky fingers of Joseph Fiennes in "Shakespeare In Love" -- remember that?  Excuse the aside, please).

[inkstainedruth]

Oh, I'm now going to have to see about watching that movie again.  And also see if they do the "plume" quills, or have people writing with what apparently is the more historically accurate "cut most of the plume off leaving a triangle at the bottom, to use to brush off the excess "sanding" stuff used to dry the ink on parchment (which my mom learned years ago on The Today Show when they interviewed Queen Elizabeth's "official" calligrapher (?) back when the wedding of Charles and Diana was imminent).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth