Shipwreck Sale: From Civil War to Rome, Dug Glass is Beautiful Either Time and Place

Beautiful rich and translucent blue "shear top" Civil War ink well. These are the ink bottles used quite universally by enlisted men in camps during the War. Officers typically had their writing desk, ink well, pens and so on. But the tens of thousands of soldiers primarily in the Union Army bought bottled ink from their regimental sutler or a family member provided it. The shear top refers to how hte bottles were sealed.

With the ink inside, the glass was melted over the top to seal the bottle and then when the soldier was ready to use it he carefully cracked the top or "sheared" it off and resealed it with a cork after he was done.

I've been fortunate to find several of these, purchasing from a relic hunter who was looking with a metal detector for coins and other items....and was lucky when he found a buried garbage pile. Those held all sorts of finds; I discovered the same thing in the Canadian Yukon, where gold rush miners did exactly the same. And someone's garbage in the 1800s could often be someone's exciting find 100-150 years later.

I ship all glass items well packed securely inside a box. If you happen to purchase multiple items or more glass items, I will refund any overpayment for shipping. I cannot provide you a combined shipping as I do on ebay because this store is set upautomatically to add appropriate postage but cannot selectively combine different amounts to combine shipping. I will always do so after you have paid and I have shipped, issuing a refund via PayPal where you initially paid.