Lovely 19th Century Hand-painted French Faience Blotter in Blue and Yellow live bait box the combination of corrugation and

the combination of corrugation and incising on smoothed areas of this one--the latter on the on the upper half of the body--make me think it may date toward the later part of the period

Of a good scale to be placed tabletop

Forged steel blade

These seem to be pretty coveted things

It's a vessel

Lovely 19th Century Hand-painted French Faience Blotter in Blue and Yellow live bait box the combination of corrugation andI found this ink blotter in PA but I believe it is 19th century, hand painted French faience. None too often that most of us use an ink blotter these days, but I thought the decoration on it so pretty I couldn't resist, and it would certainly make a good paper weight, with the benefit of a nice handle for moving it around and setting it down. Plus rocking it back and forth might calm ones nerves! And, really, why not pick up and ink pen and use it!??