Inkstands, stationers' supplies and specialties.
A 1912 trade catalogue of inkstands and stationers' supplies issued by the Frank A. Weeks Manufacturing Company of New York for office buyers and dealers. The engravings show desk inkstands in cast and moulded forms, with square and round wells, pen trays and stepped bases, drawn in plain line shading. A designer could take from them the stepped plinth, the chamfered wells and the sober tonal rendering typical of early twentieth-century office metalwork.
