# Inkwell and dip pen

> Every page of the account books was written with it.

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- Made by: Unknown glassworks
- Date: About 1915
- Material: Glass, brass, steel nib
- Size: 6 cm tall
- Cost new: Fourpence
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: The schoolroom, on the teacher’s table

This inkwell sat on the kitchen table at number 12, and the stain inside matches the blue-black of Ada Merrin’s household account books, 1921 to 1958, which are in the archive.

It is shown in the schoolroom because it is the kind every child had in their desk, but it never went to school. It stayed home and kept the accounts.