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19th C. Still-Sealed Stoneware Ink 

A seldom-seen 1840-1850 stoneware bottle of  P&J Arnold’s “Chemical Writing Fluid” with not only the original paper label, but the original unopened wax seal impressed with the P&J Arnold firm name. A number of identical bottles were recovered some years ago from the wreck of a transport ship sunk in Charleston Harbor during the  Civil War, but 150 years under water had of course dissolved those labels. This one is in terrific as-found condition.

$175