Spencerian Pens: Beautiful Condition Antique Stationer's Pen Nib Case, Chock Full mid-century italian vase Photos detail the top one

Photos detail the top one in the first photo

4 7/8" l x 3 7/16" t x 1 3/16" w

I keep scooping up these antique stencil wheels whenever I come across them  as I think they're just fantastic things

Some crazing visible on the underside

I've come across a few Victorian pin cushions made in this funny sort of boot shape

Spencerian Pens: Beautiful Condition Antique Stationer's Pen Nib Case, Chock Full mid-century italian vase Photos detail the top oneAnother find this week on a loop through central and mid coast Maine that brought pure joy and delight and quite a lucky find, too, I think a stationer's display box, completely filled with a spectrum of variously sized and shaped pen nibs! For me, I look at this in part as a fantastic found object: a near perfect embodiment of the power and possibilities of the pen, and endless potential of the written word, and language in general (including