Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) Developing Sales Techniques it looks like with a

it looks like with a knife blade

Perfect filled with roasted Brussels sprouts

I believe 1920s or so

no notable dings or other issues

I'd guess it's ceramic or some hard composite covered in a thin layer of rubber--plenty heavy to make a useful paperweight

Scarce 1850s Payson's Indelible Ink Tin (A Valentine of Sorts) Developing Sales Techniques it looks like with aBetween the first of the year and February 14, everything is a valentine to me. (I'm really not much of one for holidays, but I'm a big one for expressions of love.) So a tin tube that once housed a bottle of indelible ink seems quite romantic perfect for writing poems of love that will never fade! (It is also useful in preventing election fraud.) Payson's indelible ink was invented by pharmacist John Payson Williston in Northampton, Massachusetts and