The Inkwells I've found so far..

[Powerhead]

Here are some of the inkwells I've cleaned up so far. I'm sure I have a bunch more in the buckets but I haven't gotten to them just yet.

Feel free to chime in on any of them.

I did take 3 pictures of each if anyone wishes more details.

Thank you for the feedback!

Rick

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Rick,

Are these some of the Key West inks? Are the 2 cotton reels in the front row amber?

Looks like you may have a mucilage in the mix. I believe the 2 taller Bixbys on the right were polishes.

More please...

From.

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[botlguy]

ORIGINAL: surfaceone

Hey Rick,

Are these some of the Key West inks? Are the 2 cotton reels in the front row amber?

Looks like you may have a mucilage in the mix. I believe the 2 taller Bixbys on the right were polishes.

More please...

From.

PS: Don't forget to click the "Embed" button...

Surf has it pinned down I believe. BTW Surf, I get a kick out of that trade card.[]

 

[Powerhead]

I think these are the ones you are calling Cotton Reels??

One has a very strange crack in the neck, the other is good all around.

 

[Powerhead]

Thaddeus Davids Co. bottom..

 

[Powerhead]

Bixby

Says, "Patented May 6, 83"

 

[botlguy]

Never heard the term "Cotton Reels" used for this type ink well / bottle before but I think it fits. I'm all for using it.

 

[botlguy]

ORIGINAL: Powerhead

Bixby

Says, "Patented May 6, 83"

Definitely a polish. Or is it Hungarian? [][][:-]

 

[surfaceone]

From.

"Not to be confused with round inks, cotton reel inks are circular but have a rib or some form of reinforcing at the top and bottom and are named (logically) after the shape of cotton reels.
Above from left to right are an ice-blue finished lip, a bursrt lip aqua, a very unusual TALANA (early South African Glassworks) with some form of patent cap holder, an interesting plain ink with the letter C in reverse underneath for impressing into "Plasticene" modelling clay (or so the story goes, and a light ice-blue finished top bottle." From.

I don't kinow for sure, Jim, perhaps it's more a British term than American, but I've always heard this shape referred to as "cotton reels."

"Digger" Odell on Thaddeus David ink.

 

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