I have, and use, quite a few inkwells. You?
This one is gorgeous! !!
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Completely ignorant about these things. What is the thing that looks like a pepper shaker for?
Oh I see. So this is what Joseph Fiennes was doing in "Shakespeare in Love". :P It looked like talcum powder to me when he was pouring it on his manuscript. I imagine talc would cake though.
If I remember correctly, he kept his quill in a tomato when he wasn't using it. The whole things was fascinating -- sharpening, dipping, powdering. And the script seemed to be some kind of beautiful italic.
To keep the quill moist? To keep it from drying out? I'm just guessing here. The tomato was marked with some holes blackened by ink.
My ink wells feel deep shame now. Those are gorgeous.
Didn't know about the pounce pot though. That's an interesting thought. I wonder how well it worked then, I expect probably equally as messy.
I have a few other small ones, but this is the one that adorns my desk. I have no idea of its history nor memory of where I acquired it. I've had it a long time
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ThriveToScribe (September 30th, 2013)
Sort of related. I remember pounce from my days as a technical ink pen drafter. Drawing engineering drawings. Forget AutoCAD.
Pounce powder, but used somewhat differently.
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That sounds more logical than my answer.
Oh yeah that's right. The question was driving me a bit nuts just now so I googled it. Someone posited that the tomato was artistic license -- Tom Stoppard apparently has a thing for tomatoes.
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