Victorian ceramic ink pot, 19th century.

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

Victorian ceramic ink pot from the St Albans Museums teaching collection. Victorian school children first learnt to write on a slate with a lead pencil. They would then progress to writing with a pen and ink. There would have been an ink monitor in a Victorian class who would have gone around and used an ink pot to fill up the inkwells in each desk.

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25/06/2007