Inkstand

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An inkstand is a stand or tray used to house writing instruments, with a tightly-capped inkwell and a sand shaker for rapid drying. A penwiper would often be included, and from the mid-nineteenth century, a compartment for steel nibs, which replaced quill pens. Inkstands with tightly closing lids, often finely made, were part and parcel of a traveling kit, until the widespread use of the fountain pen. Inkstands were going out of use before the development of ballpoint pen which finished them. The Syng inkstand was used in the signing of the United States Constitution.

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  • The Syng inkstand

  • The school inkstand

  • 1920 inkstand

  • Porcelain inkstand. The Walters Art Museum


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