Could you please help identify?

[tim6144]

I found this while rehabbing a house. It is two and three quarters inches high and two inches across the top. It is unusual in that it has a lip on the inside that goes about halfway to the bottom. It has a screw type top. It has a seam running up each side but it doesn't appear to go through the top. The bottom has a circle with the number 19 and also reads,"PAT.D.1759866". Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Tim

 

[Maine Digger]

Paste / Glue container? Ink container? Looks like a place to rest a brush or nib built in.[8|]

 

[tim6144]

Here is another pic....

 

[Pontiled]

It's an ink bottle. I forget which company used this bottle, but we had them when I was in school back in the 1950's and 1960's.

 

[woody]

Yes, I believe they were used to refill fountain pens.

 

[tim6144]

Thak you all very much!
Tim

 

[TheDiggerBoy91]

Yes, this is an ink bottle that was used in schools and I believe was patented in 1927. I dug one at the dump near my cousin's house just like it.