Inkstand
Category
Desktop & office
Date
1865
Materials
Glass, Silver
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Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 454515.1
Summary
Ink well: Inkstand - Victorian shell-shaped silver inkstand engraved with honeysuckle and scrolls; with glass inkwell (no cover). Phillips presentation. Inscribed - Sheffield 1865.
Provenance
listed as pierced silver inkstand in pocket book list of silver belonging to Robert Wynter Blathwayt Dec 1904 (private list) Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961.