My Vintage Writng Box / Slope

[Hex]

I had been looking all over for one, but the authentic vintages were $800.00+

 

Then I found a new model on Etsy for $15.00. It's ok, but not nearly as good looking.

[Shangas]

Old-style writing slopes and writing-cases can be extremely expensive or extremely hard to find in a usable condition. Trust me, until I found one, I was after one for years and they were always just out of reach.

 

Beak has made a fine purchase. Although I reckon it's lacking a few things. Namely, ridges or ledges to rest pens and/or paper.

[Biber]

I had been looking all over for one, but the authentic vintages were $800.00+

 

Then I found a new model on Etsy for $15.00. It's ok, but not nearly as good looking.

 

 

Fyi there's a very similar styled one by the Bombay Company in cherry on EBay right now: item #260863993479

[Bo Bo Olson]

I have hopes of picking up a travel box similar to Moagy's box at a live auction this weekend.

 

It was a gift for some one finishing his apprenticeship in 1895; there is a small brass plate. Walnut burl vernier and brass straps.

 

I really hope for cheap...

[beak]

......... Although I reckon it's lacking a few things. Namely, ridges or ledges to rest pens and/or paper.

For me, the value of this one is that it's not tailored in any way - no internal fittings to lock me into any particular way to use it. Attractive as all those little compartments are, I never seem to have the right size things to put in them. All personal, of course, but I do like the freedom of the big open spaces inside this box.

Edited October 7, 2011 by beak

[Bo Bo Olson]

Well, you have time to find out what gizmo's went in the various compartments and buy some, as the time goes on.

 

If I get mine, I will need a stagecoach proof traveling inkwell. Fancy extending dip pen (pen holder) or such, by and by.

[Moagy]

I have hopes of picking up a travel box similar to Moagy's box at a live auction this weekend.

 

It was a gift for some one finishing his apprenticeship in 1895; there is a small brass plate. Walnut burl vernier and brass straps.

 

I really hope for cheap...

 

If it helps at all, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! ...And even as I typed that, I realised the absurdity of such a thought and action in so many ways, but you know what I mean!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thank you, absurdity is a fine spice in life. Spice not main course.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Mudville.

The other bidder hit € 180 and looked determined...and I'd passed my 'border' of 120, 140 and :bonk: 160 made me think....some other day.

Two breaths from 0 to 180.

 

So I drowned my sorrows by buying Pelikan Jade and De Atramentis Sahara gray (a green) and Cement Gray.

 

More a Wet cement color.

[Moagy]

Mudville.

The other bidder hit € 180 and looked determined...and I'd passed my 'border' of 120, 140 and :bonk: 160 made me think....some other day.

Two breaths from 0 to 180.

 

So I drowned my sorrows by buying Pelikan Jade and De Atramentis Sahara gray (a green) and Cement Gray.

 

More a Wet cement color.

 

Ach - bad luck. Next time, next time...

 

Or there's always the 'bay, that's where I got mine, there's loads in the UK and the postage shouldn't be prohibitive for you, I would have thought.

[WOBentley]

Beak,

Spectacular...and thank you for posting all the dimensions too!

I agree that the lack of compartments is an added advantage as you are not pidgeonholed into any particular size for anything

[beak]

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..and anything small and delicate can have it's own little box, which can then be shoved anywhere.

 

I had thought to keep everything I needed in this box, and that I would refrain from getting anything that didn't fit inside it (a tidiness attempt) but that lasted about one day; there is never enough space for any of my interests! Perhaps when the first careless raptire with the FP settles down, I may be able to do that, but it's not looking likely in the near future!