Mystery Jar

This is one of about five of these jars we found. Our guess is that it's a baby food jar, with a secondary chamber to hold a spoon while feeding. If anyone has any ide to confirm our thoughts, they would greatly be appreciated.

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	Ink bottle

Ohh yeah, used to have those around the house when I was growing up....used them with the bladder type fountain pens (and also with drawing pens)

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I talked to your grandma today and she remembers the ink bottles like this as if it was just yesterday. She said she can remember having them on the desk at school. The ink pen was just coming into use, and fountain pens were what they used. You would tip the jar to fill the ink well, there was a rubber blotter in the well that you would stick the tip of your pen into, then you pulled back on a handle and it would syphon the ink up into the pen's storage compartment and you would write with it until the ink was used up. Another kind had a cap on the back end that unscrewed and there was a plunger handle in the end. You would suck the ink up by pulling on the plunger. Fountain pens were famous for leaking. If you had a full pen and put it in your shirt pocket and then put on your winter coat, you would heat up your body so much that the ink would expand in the pen and blow out the tip, leaving you with a big ink stain on the bottom of your shirt pocket. I think that happened to everybody at least once. When I was a kid, they still had fountain pens, but one of the companies came up with cartridges that you would unscrew the end of the pen, remove the empty cartridge, insert a new one, and as you screwed the end of the pen back on it would puncture the cartridge. They were so cool because you could use different colors of cartridges and write in colors.

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