Newell Robbins "Ones The This Bottle" (and Etched it Himself) Brainerd & Armstrong thread with no chips or cracks

with no chips or cracks whatsoever

There are steel pins at top front and back (visible when one opens the lid) that when pressed open and close the front and back doors

I'm so often struck by the playful the use of language on 19th century objects

But just as is it's a pretty sweet one I think

the bluebird includes the names of Gertrude H

Newell Robbins "Ones The This Bottle" (and Etched it Himself) Brainerd & Armstrong thread with no chips or cracksNear impossible to photograph well, but I love this thing a glass ink bottle, its surface crudely etched (scratched into) by a young Newell Robbins. His name appears in large letters on both sides, followed on one side with "ones the this bottle" underneath translation: "owns" this bottle, I believe. The other side reads "born October 12" with a bit more following that appears to have been deliberately scratched out. I filled it with water to make it