The following links may help you navigate through this page, or you may scroll down it and look at it all. Some came in similarly decorated and delightful tins . A few of mine appear here and below. In addition, I finally have a few pictures of some other related items such as penholders, inkwells, etc. This Italian nib box was part of a trade with Roberto Morassi.
Nothing is on the box's bottom.
This tiny little fellow measures 46 mm x 17mm x 9 mm. The faded colors originally may have been fire-engine red, cream, and black. The New York City-based Spencerian Pen Company, I learned from Dr. Poole, was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The box's ends repeat the same information as its top, save the patent notice, and its sides were void of any markings. The style's popularity was the inspiration in 1848 for Mssrs.