Don't know that I have ever seen a WWI Red Cross pin before but the Drafting Tools do . I did train to use the Inking Pins for drawings but we then immediately went to only using lead and then shortly after to Mylar . That is a nice set .
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Nice find Rachel
I think I might have another set knocking about somewhere 
Wow! I never saw so many compasses/dividers in one case!
That's a very cool heirloom.
Thanks. I assumed those are for ink, but can't imagine how they were used without making a mess. I'm just young enough to have learned cursive writing, but with ballpoint pens.
Nice! I always pick them up if it's affordable. "They aren't making any more like that..."Nice find Rachel
The double needle one in the middle looks like it's from a different set, but they usually have at least one small sized for pencil lead, ink, scribe, plus a few larger ones. I actually use the small dividers in my artsy/crafty projects, for measuring and marking tiny details.
I'm just young enough to have written on slates at school!
Yeah, me too, though I don't actually collect them
I don't think I've ever paid more than £15 for a set, and they're usually complete, and in good condition 
We had to use lumps of charcoal on the back of a shovel!!!I'm just young enough to have written on slates at school!
Betcha used yer pen knife...er, lambsfoot...to sharpen yer quills!I'm just young enough to have written on slates at school!
Yeah, me too, though I don't actually collect them
You had a shovel!
We had to use lumps of charcoal on the back of a shovel!!!
He wants to think himself lucky I didn't tell the Boy Scouts Association to take away his whittling privileges when he became a Scout Leader later! 
Wow. The best I can do is I remember school desks that had recesses which had been inkwells.We really did have pieces of slate, and not the posh type with the wooden surround, but pieces of old roofing slate! Next stage up were pencils, and then we got a nibbed pen, which had to be dipped in an inkwell! There was a lad called David Burgin, who volunteered to be both 'Pencil Monitor', handing out the pencils, which had your name written on a shaved off section, and 'Ink Well Monitor', filling the inkwells. For those who didn't have their own knife, there were wooden-handled craft knives, for sharpening pencils. I still have the scar where my friend John Scholey accidentally stabbed me in the side with one!
The way you loaded the ink into the instrument was with an Eye Dropper , back into the area above the points . The points were kept barely open . Due to the viscosity of the ink it just flowed down as you moved the point or nib . You could not leave the nib in contact with the paper . It did take a while to learn to be proficient . What Brand is that set ?? The set that I always used was made by Post . I gave most of my set to a Grandson never to be seen again .
I remember when cartridge pens came along and I didn't have to worry with the ink bottle any more. Major improvement!
My first pen was a cartridge pen, then I regressed to a more traditional fountain pen with a bulb, which seemed like more fun
We could use our own pens as an alternative to the school-issue pens, which had a nib, and a long plastic stem, blue in colour. I think kids were allowed to use Biros for most classes by then too, or maybe that came a little later. Once the changes started happening, they happened fast. I kept on using my fountain pen, but by the time I got to secondary school, the inkwells weren't being filled anymore, and many of the desks were like Jer remembers. Someone once told me that one of the reasons some of the old 'technology' hung around so long was that Government contracts were huge. For example Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) were still issuing ink erasers into the 1960's, because they were available, and folks found them useful as letter openers.
The only brand mark I can find is on the one piece that I think is from a different set: Federal.
Did someone say Ink Erasers?My first pen was a cartridge pen, then I regressed to a more traditional fountain pen with a bulb, which seemed like more fun
Another obsolete tool that I keep accumulating.
I tried a cartridge pen again recently, but all the ink had dried up in my cartridges. At least that way they can't leak in my shirt pocket.My first pen was a cartridge pen, then I regressed to a more traditional fountain pen with a bulb, which seemed like more fun
They are pretty coolDid someone say Ink Erasers?
