A steal for $42, but what was this used for?
03-27-2011, 07:43 AM
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I have that same cabinet for my singer 201, and it has the same jar. My jar has dried blue stains around the rim - my guess is it held ink. The little marble inside would help remove excess ink after the pen/quill was dipped.
03-27-2011, 08:04 AM
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When I was in grade school every school desk had one built in. You are right we mostly had braids and it was just too tempting for the boys to dip them. I loved writing with a pen staff. Heard recently that some schools are considering not teaching the children cursive at all anymore as they can use computer. What a shame. What about when the power goes out?
03-27-2011, 08:15 AM
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Oh, I have one of these, but my ink jar is missing. That's my guess for the jar anyway, it is situated next to the pen cubby in the "desk" drawer so I'm thinking that's where you dipped your pen in to write. Er, that would be an old way of writing though. I forget the year on this machine? I know we were using reservoir fountain pens when I was a young girl still...and I'm 60 this year....oh, was that my outside voice? :)
03-27-2011, 08:20 AM
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Is that an ink well? And there is a place for the ink pens to rest in the front of the drawer??? Hey I'm only guessing here.
Originally Posted by Debd
Went to the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store and found this beauty for $50. Then there was this 20% off discount because it was furniture. Needless to say I left a nice donation check as well.
My question is about this container I found in the top drawer of the cabinet. There is a place specifically for it, so I believe it is part of the original sewing package. The top is a double layer with a hole in the bottom layer that a ball bearing fits into. The machine is a 1945 Singer 15-90.
Anybody have a clue?
My question is about this container I found in the top drawer of the cabinet. There is a place specifically for it, so I believe it is part of the original sewing package. The top is a double layer with a hole in the bottom layer that a ball bearing fits into. The machine is a 1945 Singer 15-90.
Anybody have a clue?
03-27-2011, 08:40 AM
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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, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Used to be long years ago all of the ink used to come in short squat bottles, we bought at the store for 10 or 15 cents. Some of them had a little inside curved extra glass cup just under the lid to hold a small part of the ink for dipping straight pens into or for refilling lever type fountain pens. It was tricky to pour the ink from those bottles into these inkwells!
Everybody had an inkwell something like this in their desks at school.
It was so easy to splatter ink out of those steel pens when we wrote with them, because there was a drop of ink clinging to the underside of the pen.
However, people made beautiful designs with these pens, similar to, but more ornate than the quilting designs we use today.
When they invented ball point pens we were not so sure they were going to work at first, because the teeny balls in the points fell out easily, and the ink was awful messy if that happened.
Everybody had an inkwell something like this in their desks at school.
It was so easy to splatter ink out of those steel pens when we wrote with them, because there was a drop of ink clinging to the underside of the pen.
However, people made beautiful designs with these pens, similar to, but more ornate than the quilting designs we use today.
When they invented ball point pens we were not so sure they were going to work at first, because the teeny balls in the points fell out easily, and the ink was awful messy if that happened.
03-27-2011, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by martha jo
When I was in grade school every school desk had one built in. You are right we mostly had braids and it was just too tempting for the boys to dip them. I loved writing with a pen staff. Heard recently that some schools are considering not teaching the children cursive at all anymore as they can use computer. What a shame. What about when the power goes out?
03-27-2011, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Bobbin along
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, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by kaykwilts
Originally Posted by Rose L
Very interesting piece of furniture. I am old enough to know what an ink well is but young enough to have used a cartridge pen in school. Makes me wonder what odd things my kids will have knowledge of in the years to come but not have been old enough to use them. I bet records/LPs are one of them. Ha!
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I googled "aluminum wave clips" and found several references to them. Some were made by the same "GOODY" company who still makes so much of our hair thingies.
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