Fountain Pen and Inkwell Desk Stand Model

An old-fashioned writing stand on a rounded rectangular base. A faceted square inkwell with a domed lid and knob finial sits at the back, a pen stands at an angle in a round cup holder beside it, and a second pen rests in a groove along the front edge. Desk stands combining an inkwell and pen rest were standard on writing desks through the nineteenth century, when people still wrote with dip pens. Self-filling fountain pens spread from the late 1800s onward, but the pen-and-inkwell stand remain…

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