Six Japanese Pen-form Metal Portable Writing Sets, Yatate
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
the first a brass example, together with a circular ink reservoir decorated with mix-metal shell-form inlays; the second another brass example chiseled with diaper cells, together with a bronze circular ink reservoir inset with an iron top decorated with a rat; the third also a brass example together with an inro-form ink reservoir; the fourth and the fifth two bronze examples, one with an inro-form ink reservoir, the other a jar shaped; the sixth a silver example with an inro-style ink reservoir.
Average length 8 in., 20 cm.
Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund
