Two Victorian silver two-bottle inkstands, both John Grinsell & Sons of Birmingham, London, 1898 and 1900

the first rectangular, applied ovolo border above claw and balls supports, fitted with a central box with hinged cover and two detachable silver-mounted cut-glass inkpots; the second oblong with applied wirework gallery border, also with central box and two silver-mounted glass inkpots

the first, marks good, overall condition reasonable but with a few small dents, two of the six fly nuts missing, the inkpot mounts both have splits in the rims; the second, marks good, overall in better condition; some chips to glass
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