Antique Carved Marble Shoe Shaped Ink Pen Holder cedar frog and for the great combo

and for the  great combo of colors all together

developing glazes using mineral deposits collected from around the province to get true to life colors for the mushrooms

which I have not touched

some embossed with the Osborne trade mark

with a few stray paint dabs here or there

Antique Carved Marble Shoe Shaped Ink Pen Holder cedar frog and for the great comboA nice complement to the ink blotter I just listed, this little carved marble shoe was made to hold ink quill pens, and perhaps there was once a carved marble ink well to accompany it. You know I love a carved shoe, and even better in marble. There is some faint carving on one side; I can make out "garden", which makes me think this was a folk souvenir from the Garden of the Gods in Colorado from which I have also seen a few carved marble books over