Set of inkwells with wooden base - calendar
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Set of inkwells with wooden base and silver applications - calendar with removable sheets.
Category
Antique 19th Century European Inkwells
Materials
Silver
Calendar Inkwell
Art Deco Lacquered Calendar Desk Set, Two Inkwells With Retractable Lids 1930's
$2,353
H 2.52 in W 11.03 in D 6.7 in
Art Deco Lacquered Calendar Desk Set, Two Inkwells With Retractable Lids 1930's
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Befit With Two Engine Turned Inkwells with one Glass Lining and Lids That Retract.
Category
Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Chrome
Tiffany Studios New York 'Zodiac' Bronze Pen Tray Desk Accessory, circa 1910
$995
H 0.38 in W 10 in D 3 in
Tiffany Studios New York 'Zodiac' Bronze Pen Tray Desk Accessory, circa 1910
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
Matching desk accessories including an inkwell, calendar holder, desk box, and rocker blotter also available.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York 'Zodiac' Bronze Rocker Blotter, circa 1910
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
Matching desk accessories including a calendar holder, pen tray, inkwell, and desk box also available.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Zodiac" Bronze Rocker Blotter, Circa 1910
$1,295
H 2.13 in W 5.63 in D 2.75 in
Tiffany Studios New York "Zodiac" Bronze Rocker Blotter, Circa 1910
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
Matching desk accessories including a calendar holder, pen tray, inkwell, and desk box also available.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Zodiac" Bronze Pen Tray
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
Matching desk accessories including an inkwell, calendar holder, desk box, and rocker blotter also available.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Zodiac" Bronze Pen Tray
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
Matching desk accessories including an inkwell, calendar holder, desk box, and rocker blotter also available.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
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Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco desk set with ink wells & calendar. Modernist design with glass base and streamlined metal with black vitrolite glass tops for the ink wells. Excellent simple metalwork thro...
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1930s Art Deco Black Lacquer and Chrome Desk Set with 2 Inkwells and Calendar
Unavailable
H 4.34 in W 10.63 in D 6.3 in
1930s Art Deco Black Lacquer and Chrome Desk Set with 2 Inkwells and Calendar
Located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
1930s Art Deco black lacquer and chrome desk set with 2 cut glass inkwells and calendar. A luxurious Item that will compliment any desk.
Category
Vintage 1920s European Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Chrome
Roycroft Arts & Crafts Hammered Copper Five-Piece Desk Set, Circa 1920s
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H 0.38 in W 24 in D 11 in
Roycroft Arts & Crafts Hammered Copper Five-Piece Desk Set, Circa 1920s
By Roycroft
Located in South Bend, IN
The five-piece set includes: calendar frame, inkwell, pen tray, letter opener, and set of four blotter corners with green leather desk blotter.
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Desk Sets
Materials
Copper
American Art Deco Desk Set Heintz Art Metal Shop
Located in Toronto, ON
Comprising perpetual calendar, humidor, inkwell, letter stand, pen tray, pair of bookends,coaster, roller blotter and blotter corners, all signed and numbered.
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Desk Accessories
American Art Deco Desk Set Heintz Art Metal Shop Sterling on Bronze 9 Piece
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H 3 in W 10 in D 6 in
American Art Deco Desk Set Heintz Art Metal Shop Sterling on Bronze 9 Piece
By Heintz Art Metal Shop
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Comprising perpetual calendar, humidor, inkwell, letter stand, pen tray, pair of bookends, coaster, roller blotter and blotter corners, all signed and numbered.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver, Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Zodiac" Bronze Rocker Blotter and Blotter Ends
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H 0.5 in W 19.25 in D 2 in
Tiffany Studios New York "Zodiac" Bronze Rocker Blotter and Blotter Ends
By Tiffany Studios
Located in South Bend, IN
Matching desk accessories including a calendar holder, pen tray, inkwell, and desk box also available.
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
Cartier Styles et Stylos Hardcover French Edition, Cartier Creative Writing
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H 11.75 in W 10 in D 1 in
Cartier Styles et Stylos Hardcover French Edition, Cartier Creative Writing
By Cartier
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
This volume features a comprehensive selection of pieces from Cartier's incredibly inventive repertoire-- pens, inkwells, mechanical pencils, calendars, stationary and other accessor...
Category
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Books
Materials
Paper
English Art Deco Perpetual Desk Calendar Inkwell, circa 1930s
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This British Art Deco desk calendar inkwell has an onyx base and chrome accents.
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Inkwells
Materials
Onyx, Chrome
Tiffany Studios New York Abalone Nine-Piece Bronze Desk Set, circa 1910
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H 5.5 in W 9.5 in D 2.5 in
Tiffany Studios New York Abalone Nine-Piece Bronze Desk Set, circa 1910
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Gilt bronze with mother-of-pearl from abalone comprising rocker blotter, easel calendar, inkwell, letter opener, pincushion holder, pen rack, two-compartment open box, blotter ends....
Category
Vintage 1910s American Art Nouveau More Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Exquisite Victorian Rosewood & Leather Tooled Writing Slope, Inkwell and Pen
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H 5.52 in W 16.15 in D 9.65 in
Exquisite Victorian Rosewood & Leather Tooled Writing Slope, Inkwell and Pen
Located in Reading, Berkshire
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Category
Antique 19th Century British Campaign Desk Sets
Materials
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Oak Stationery Cabinet
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Large brass-bound Stationery Cabinet made of solid Oak with brass straps all round, fully fitted with perpetual calendar, inkwells, and a push-button sprung-loaded drawer.
Category
Antique 19th Century British Cabinets
Fantastic and Complete Sterling Desk Set by Marshall Fields, circa 1900
Located in Redding, CA
This fantastic set complete with "Bookends," calendar, inkwell on stand, pen tray, stamp box, blotter and letter opener.
Category
Antique Early 1900s Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Military Lap Desk, Daily Calendar, English Antique
Located in Port Chester, NY
Tambour top rolls up and exposes the interior, a letter rack, leather slant top, covered pen holder, and original glass inkwells. The calendar at top shows day of the week, date, and...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Boxes
Materials
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Tiffany & Co. Studios New York Seven-Piece Bronze Desk Set, Early 20th Century
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H 7.88 in W 13.78 in D 19.69 in
Tiffany & Co. Studios New York Seven-Piece Bronze Desk Set, Early 20th Century
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Liverpool, GB
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Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze
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Calendar Inkwell For Sale on 1stDibs
Find many varieties of an authentic calendar inkwell available at 1stDibs. Each calendar inkwell for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, bronze and glass. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer calendar inkwell, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each calendar inkwell bearing Art Nouveau, Art Deco or Victorian hallmarks is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one calendar inkwell that is appealing in its simplicity, but Tiffany Studios, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd. produced versions that are worth a look.
How Much is a Calendar Inkwell?
Prices for a calendar inkwell can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $950 and can go as high as $9,995, while the average can fetch as much as $2,072.
Finding the Right Desk-accessories for You
Whether you’ve carved out a space for a nifty home office or you prefer the morning commute, why not dress up your desk with antique and vintage desk accessories? To best tiptoe the line between desk efficiency and desk enjoyment, we suggest adding a touch of the past to your modern-day space.
Desks are a funny thing. Their basic premise has remained the same for quite literally centuries: a flat surface, oftentimes a drawer, and potentially a shelf or two. However, the contents that lay upon the desk? Well, the evolution has been drastic to say the least.
Thank the Victorians for the initial popularity of the paperweight. The Industrial Revolution offered the novel concept of leisure-time to Europeans, giving them more time to take part in the then crucial activity of letter writing. Decorative glass paperweight designs were all the rage, and during the mid-19th-century some of the most popular makers included the French companies of Baccarat, St. Louis and Clichy.
As paper was exceedingly expensive in the early to mid-19th-century, every effort was made to utilize a full sheet of it. Paper knives, which gave way to the modern letter opener, were helpful for cutting paper down to an appropriate size.
Books — those bound volumes of paper, you may recall — used to be common occurrences on desks of yore and where there were books there needed to be bookends. As a luxury item, bookend designs have run the gamut from incorporating ultra-luxurious materials (think marble and Murano glass) to being whimsical desk accompaniments (animal figurines were highly popular choices).
Though the inkwell’s extinction was ushered in by the advent of the ballpoint pen (itself quasi-obsolete at this point), there is still significant charm to be had from placing one of these bauble-like objets in a central spot on one’s desk. You may be surprised to discover the mood-boosting powers an antique — and purposefully empty — inkwell can provide.
The clamor for desk clocks arose as the Industrial Revolution transitioned labor from outdoors to indoors, and allowed for the mass-production of clock parts in factories. Naturally, elaborate designs soon followed and clocks could be found made by artisans and luxury houses like Cartier.
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