A discussion about an elegant sterling inkwell in another subform had me looking at my inkwells, elegant and not-so-elegant. I came across good ol' Boris, and I thought I should introduce him.
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I suspect he's a hedgehog from the Black Forest. He came to me at the end of one of the Columbus Ohio pen shows, when vendors don't want to take home their oddities.