A steal for $42, but what was this used for?
03-27-2011, 04:23 PM
#102
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Originally Posted by great aunt jacqui
it looks like an old inkwell, we used o have in our scool desks. maybe the cabinet was a combo sewing and desk? Also the recessed part on the left would be for pens or quills. It maybe an add on because the woods seem different. Just grabbing at ideas.lol
03-27-2011, 07:23 PM
#108
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ok im adding my two cents. It looks like a magnafing glass you set the wide paart oon whatever you want a close up of. and look into the hole. maybe can be used to look at stiches. well the one i have looks kind of like it and mine is a magnafing glass. and I spelled magnafiing wrong :)
03-27-2011, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by lnikkers52
ok im adding my two cents. It looks like a magnafing glass you set the wide paart oon whatever you want a close up of. and look into the hole. maybe can be used to look at stiches. well the one i have looks kind of like it and mine is a magnafing glass. and I spelled magnafiing wrong :)
03-27-2011, 09:10 PM
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Before brands like Schaffer and Esterbrook came out with the plastic cylinder ink cartirdges you used a bottle of ink and dipped the nib of the pen into the ink. There was a little lever farther back along the body of the pen. You would lift that up to suck in into the pen bladder. Man permanent ink was messy in the 40' and 50's. Even the plastic ink cartridges leaked at time. It was similar to using a syringe and sucking it into the glass tube part.
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