Here are some of Antique and Vintage office supplies and hardware This was my grandfathers from the early 1900's in its original case. These were your standard pencil case that was made of wood I had a similar one in grade 1-4 when they started making plastic ones that were lighter to carry. It stored your pencil, eraser, and nibs if you were using a fountain pen. There was a time when all the mail that came into an office was stamped the date received and then it was sent to the appropriate dept for their review and then stamped again when it was received there and possibly another stamp when the paper was concluded. So most company admin people had these carousels on their desks for the various stamps required in the dept. Displayed in the above picture is stamps with felt pads on the bottom which are used for scrapbooking with distressed inks and oxides Every Dept. had a sharpener till the motorized ones started replacing the manual ones. This was an ink well that would ho