The schoolroom
Inkwell and dip pen
Every page of the account books was written with it.
- 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. First floor.
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.
More from the schoolroom.
School satchel
Unknown saddler, Sheffield, 1928The schoolroom, on the peg by the doorCost new: four shillings
Writing slate
Unknown maker, about 1910The schoolroom, on a desk in the front rowCost new: a penny
Dinner plate, riveted
Unknown pottery, Staffordshire, about 1900Made to Mend, in the long caseCost new: threepence; the mend, a penny
Where to see it
The schoolroom, first floor.
You’ll find it on the teacher’s table, on the first floor. The lift is by the front desk.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00, and until 20:00 on Thursdays.