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Antique & Desk Accessories & Nibs - This collection consists of an early 20th-century American desk set and a variety of associated writing materials. The desk suite is comprised of three pieces featuring coordinated tooled leather surfaces decorated with polychrome foliate scrolls and central floral motifs in blue and green. The suite includes a two-tiered letter rack, a rocker blotter, and a clear faceted glass inkwell with a matching decorated lid seated in a fitted base with an integrated pen rest. The group includes two vintage dip pen holders. One is a black tapered holder impressed with the mark ZANER-BLOSER COLS. O. identifying it as a product of the Zaner-Bloser Company of Columbus, Ohio. The second is a yellow wooden Eberhard Faber Mongol holder stamped 82 with a star-in-shield logo and E.FABER MADE IN U.S.A. MONGOL. Two boxes of unused vintage nibs are included. The first box contains aluminum Metropolitan No. 062 Boll Pointed pens stamped METROPOLITAN 062. The second box contains Sheffield Series No. 416 nickel alloy nibs from Eugene Adcock of Somerville, Massachusetts, featuring a warrior trademark and stamped NICKEL SHEFFIELD SERIES EUGENE ADCOCK SOMERVILLE MASS.