Only $2500? :-) I'll take a half-dozen! (nfm)
Posted by Woodhouse on June 20, 1998 at 20:05:32:
In response to "Pounce pot", written by Erin L on June 20, 1998 at 15:43:27
]
] In the latest issue of Traditional Home magazine, in a feature about black basalt Wedgwood pottery, there is a photo on page 153 of an 18th- century Wedgwood inkstand. The caption says that the item in question is "a pounce pot, which looks like a saltshaker and was used to sprinkle sand on paper to blot the ink." (Current value of this set: $2,500.00 !!)
]
] ] SO . . . these meanings seem to conflict. Maybe the term pounce-box just meant "a shaker", to be used for sand, or in the last case, hair powder, which was used with the curling irons during the Georgian period. How was hair powder applied anyway?
]
]
]
]
- Sand included at no extra charge! (nfm) Erin L 14:00:54 6/21/98
(0)
Posting followups to old messages is disabled; instead go to the main index and post a new message which mentions this one.
