Lovely 19th Century Lignum Vitae Travelling Ink Bottle collegia While I do love the

While I do love the fancy curlicues and colorful dyed splints of MicMac baskets

First quarter of the 20th century British and unused and done in black ink with a little blue (with white polka dots

I must say that I think K did a pretty great job

with natural bristles attached via fine hand-stitched wire (I think horse hair on the drafting brush

is now well known as a photojournalist and activist

Lovely 19th Century Lignum Vitae Travelling Ink Bottle collegia While I do love theThe more I look at antique postcards and beautifully hand written letters, the more I wish we'd at least occasionally forgo texting and emailing and return to using pen and ink! And this lovely antique lignum vitae ink bottle only strengthens the case! Lignum vitae is a gorgeous and rather miraculous very hard wood, often used for fine objects like this. It comes from trees of the genus Guaiacum, indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of