Vintage silver plate decorative pen & ink stand decorated standish with standing deer figure, with pen brackets, and two ink wells with blue glass liners, marked Jd, James Dixon, to base, length 6.69 in.
- Standish - Although the word is little used nowadays, a standish is an inkstand on feet and usually in silver or silver plate, containing some of the following: inkwells, a pounce pot, a sealing wax container and a pen rest. Standishes are also found in less common materials including boulle, marble, brass and wood.
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