A new pen stand, and an old one

[Bo Bo Olson]

My wife spotted this semi-circular pen holder in the net, and had the man stain it away from it's plywood base. Now Beech.

 

The other pen stand, below the semi-circular one, is what I won in a Live Auction a week or so ago. It has that old fashioned picture frame flip out stand backing the case. That is the one directly above the foot tall, 1915 Working Smith Inkwell, celebrating a German Eastern Front battle win in WW1.

 

I now have space for three medium inkwell stands...and that is all.

 

 

 

What do your pen stands look like?

Odd inkwells count too....even non-odd inkwells.

[inkstainedruth]

Very nice!  

I'll admit that my "pen stand" for inked up pens is an empty canister from a gift set of hot cocoa mix I got ink in a "Yankee Swap" (stealing it away from someone else).

I do have a few Pelikan stands (three of the small glazed ones: blue, white, and metallic gold -- I'd dearly love to get a silver glazed one as well); and one big one (also blue glazed).  But at the moment they're in one of the upper cupboards in the antique dental cabinet I bought just as the world was going into COVID lockdown (I still need to find the right size screws to attach the knobs after painting or staining the knobs; and to figure out how to clean/maintain the metal drawers in the bottom section of it).

I also have a "Commander Worf" action figure (I can adjust the arms and hands so it looks as if he's pretending to be holiding the Sword of Kahless ).  And a plastic astronaut I got last year at a table at the Ohio Pen Show, where the arms also stretch out straight.  I actually bought two -- one with a blue spacesuit and one with a white spacesuit -- and gave my husband the white suited one (which he's been using with the Vanishing Point I gave him).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

I've a bohemian red engraved glass cup, I didn't get my wife to take a picture of, a 1795 Meissen mustard jar, that is missing its top so ended up a pen cup. A Scottish clan cup with out handle, and a metal Brooklyn Soap Company cut, for my inked pens......16 pens, and tree in pen holders on the desk.

Soon that Brooklyn cup will join the real full (21 pens), slant handled 'Heidelberg' Rosenthal cup, because I'm too lazy to clean out pens.

I go from being astounded at having 35 pens inked a while, back to having over 20 pens that need cleaning.

The mustard jar, with the plate bottom firmly attached.

I was after the Meissen inkwell and pen holder in the rear in a Live Auction. The Mustard cup was just part of a Meissen lot.

We kept the spoon holder, the white object with the rose in it on the blue plate. The rest got our money back at the Flea market. At flea market prices.

 

Some Meissen is still expensive, but there is lots of it now affordable...Whole 48-72 piece used services affordable!!!  .......................if one goes and looks at modern prices, one does have to be Freddy Mercury to dine in class on brand new.

 

There are still pieces from the 17th, even 18th century that you have to kidnap Bill Gates to pay for. So I got over big time, with that very affordable single bid lot.