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Please could I call on the expertise of Gwulo readers to interpret the characters inscribed on this nib holder. I believe one of the characters may mean "scholarship". I don't know the date of manufacture, but suspect it belongs to the first half of the twentieth century. It has come to me via Warren cousins and may have originally belonged to my grandfather, Charles Warren, as I have an inkwell of his. I well recall the horrors of trying to write with scratchy dip pens and the spatters and blots they caused.
Jill <Read more ...>
