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Writing materials and instruments

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Images from the collections

Images about Writing materials and instruments

5 images from works
  • An ornate garden obelisk flanked by women with writing materials and blank tablets. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • Crystal transparent jam pot covers with wax tissues, title labels and recipe slips : 2 lb. size.
  • Stag gummed jam pot covers : complete with waxed tissues & title labels : 4d. 2 lb. size : a Dickinson product.
  • Stag gummed jam pot covers : complete with waxed tissues & title labels : 4d. 2 lb. size : a Dickinson product.
  • Crystal transparent jam pot covers with wax tissues, title labels and recipe slips : 2 lb. size.

Works from the collections

13 works

    • Books

    New and complete manual on the making of fancy papers / by M. Fichtenberg ; a translation into English of his Nouveau manual complet fabricant de papiers de fantaisie (PARIS 1852) by Richard J. Wolfe.

    Fichtenberg. | Date: 2010
    • Books

    Oriental writing materials : an exhibition from 6 July to 30 November 1977 / The British Library, Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.

    British Library. Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books | Date: [1977], ©1977
    • Books

    Hale paper : jubilee edition, 1921-1971.

    Hale Paper company. | Date: 1971]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Crystal transparent jam pot covers with wax tissues, title labels and recipe slips : 2 lb. size.

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Stag gummed jam pot covers : complete with waxed tissues & title labels : 4d. 2 lb. size : a Dickinson product.

    Dickinson Paper Group. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]
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