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Article: Desk set from Victorian office
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2006
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All too often accessories to writing equipment are lost, and a
worrying trend in antiques centres is the theft of ink bottles and
pen trays from scribes' pieces. Not only does this reduce the value
of the box or case, the chances are that they won't fit anything else
anyway.
But there is no such problem with a Victorian clerk's desk set
which has, beneath a folding top, three inkwells - one china and two
glass. Also included is a glass pen tray in the front well, while
behind are the names of the inks, for red, black and copying. An
unusual set, all original, on PJC Collectables' stand for pounds40 at
the Cedars antiques and collectors' fair in Barnstaple tomorrow.
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