Object number
68/243
Description
This is an ink well made of copper and pottery ink well. The factory where the ink well was manufactured, was started at suggestion of Bolitho family, for unemployed Newlyn fisherman around 1875.
Archival history
MERL ‘Handwritten Catalogue’ form - ‘Ink stand // Personal Use writing // Somers Frieth, Henley, Oxon // Copper, Pottery ink well. Factory started at suggestion of Bolitho family- for unemployed Newlyn fisherman- about 1875 [pencil drawing].’
Production place
Newlyn
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_9731.tif - High resolution image