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Advertising Inkwells (39)

Created on: 27 Apr 2021
Businesses used inkwells to advertise or promote their company and products. These are a few examples.
  • INSURANCE BUILDING Inscribed on the building are advertisements: The front bottom says "WE WILL BOND YOU" and the back says "AGENTS IN EVERY CITY CAPITAL $2,000,000 On the one side it says ACCIDENT--
  • Early 20th century cast brass brewery promotional desk stand, with twin flank 'roof' reservoir lids. Impressed S. T. & Sons "Trademark" to base.
  • Green, white, & black enameling advertising Marquette CEMENT on front & back of cement bag. The company bag has, Chicago, Memphis, LaSalle,Ill.,Cape Girardeau,Mo. & lid says 94 LBS. NET.
  • Vintage racing car souvenir advertising inkwell, GOODYEAR tire PAMPEANA
  • BRONZED DESK NOVELTY CLOCK COMMEMORATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SPEIDEL GROCERY CO. A commemorative clock, dial is flanked by barrels and other packages with grocer's products such as Fancy Patent Flour
  • Hand-crank washing machine - Old advertising piece from White Lily - Davenport Iowa.
  • DATED 1904 - ADVERTISING INKWELL- EDNA SMELT. & REF. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO. "PORTEOUS GRAPHITE BABBITT" The brass lid that fits over the ink is inscribed "HAPPY NEW YEAR 1904".
  • Tree stump inkwell used as advertising for lumber companies. This one is for the Edmund A. Allen Lumber Co in Chicago.
  • Patent date of Jan 1, 95 on the bottom. Shaped as a cube, it contains graphics at each side of equipment manufactured by the Aultman Co. Canton, OH. The machines include: "The Buckeye-Road Machine"
  • Cast metal Brunswick Household Mechanical Refrigerator. The front is marked, Brunswick Refrigerating Co., New Brunswick, NJ, and the base is marked Household, Mechanical, Refrigerator. The sliding top
  • Electric Motor - marked in the front "Western Electric Company" and the names of various cities (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis) along the base.
  • This figural inkwell comes "compliments of the Cleveland Hardware Co." which is marked on the base.
  • Inkwell in the form of a railroad tanker care for the Western Petroleum Company of New York
  • California Fruit Canners Association. This can is for Yellow Free Peaches, and has a peach emblem on the lid and front. The back side has the seal from the California Fruit Canner's Association and bo
  • Unusual inkwell in the shape of an orange. The top half of the orange lifts to reveal the inkwell. Embossed 1912 Los Angeles Al Malaikah.
  • "Minett Varnish Makers Coach & Car Baking Japans Varnishes" on the front. Has two years (1888 & 89) of calendar cards.
  • Inkwell in the form of a fire hydrant and hose. The lid is marked on the top "Insurance From Loss F A 1817" and around the base "Fire Association of Philadelphia 1817 - 1917.
  • 1905 - Bronze DOUBLE INKWELL commemorates the RHINELAND-WESTPHALIAN COAL AND COKE STORAGE FACILITY HAMBURG, STERNSCHANZE TRAIN STATION
  • Cast iron inkstand features a rotating barrel (inkwell), which tilts forward when pen is removed. In addition, there are two small inkwells in the front of the piece. Brass plaque on the front: J.C.
  • "WE WANT BEER" anti-Prohibition ephemera – inkwell in the form of a beer barrel. On the side is written: We Want Beer.
  • This glass inkwell advertises the hardware merchants Ashby Bergh & Co. Ltd in Christ Church. The lid includes a pen holder.
  • Made to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Pipe Company, Wm DEMUTH & Co NY. Two figural pipes serve as pen wipes are displayed on each side of the clock.
  • Union Tank & Pipe Co, Los Angeles CA inkwell depicts a nude strong man holding up a pipe between two tanks.
  • Advertising piece for the British Aluminum Company
  • Commemorating the 60th Anniversary (1855 - 1915) of Crane Company, Chicago, Illinois for the production of their valves & fittings, with a relief molded valve in the center.
  • An advertising inkwell for Dewer’s Whiskey "White Label" – Created in 1899 by John Dewer & Son's first Master Blender, A.J. Cameron. It has become the company's top-selling variation.
  • Lithographed tin box with wood grain advertising Hall's STATE Toffee. Sole Manufacturers, Hall's Bros. Ltd. Whitefield, Manchester. The hinged lid opens to expose two red pottery inkwells and a long
  • Huntley & Palmer Biscuits / Reading & London inkstand given out in the 1920’s.
  • Advertising for a flour company in Treichlers, PA. Bag of flour is very nicely detailed and advertising plaque on the front mentions Mauser Mill Co. plant locations and salesmen.
  • Gibraltar Inkwell - advertising Prudential insurance. Marked - "Thursday May 4th 1911. Compliments of Williamsport District" & "The Prudential Has the Strength of Gibraltar".
  • Marked on the bottom: Property of The Waldorf Astoria 4, Insico Pewter." Stolen from a hotel? More likely went on the market after inkwells were no longer standard desk items. Pewter, drip pan, dou
  • Walnut branch - with leaves and two walnuts, one of which opens as an inkwell. On the reverse marked: Compliments of Reading Hardware Co, Reading PA.
  • Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Building – “Largest building in the world from 1909 to 1913
  • This inkwell advertises cognac from the Otard-Dupuy & Co. , founded 1795
  • Hudson's soap - famous brand in Great Britain. Different slogans on each side: "All our good reliable" "Wash up with Hudson's Soap", "High Class Qualities", "For the People - Hudson's Soap".
  • Advertising piece for City National Bank, Evansville, Ind - on one side it states "Bank the City Way", the other side has the name of the bank.
  • Figural inkwell depicts a woman sitting in a bath tub, advertising Kercher Brothers Baths, Congress and Wabash, Chicago.
  • Part of the Northern Pacific Railroad's advertising campaign "Route of the Great Baked Potato".
  • Bass & Co. - Pale Ale - London - Figural advertising inkwell in the form of a bottle of ale.
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