Copied from old French designs and showing floral design features on the intricate silver-plated metalwork that surrounds this beautiful inkwell .
Holds a Volume of 30 ml of ink.
Measuring a Diameter 54 mm or two inches. Overall height 68 mm.
Made out of Flawless cobalt blue glass with FIRE POLISHED stopper made by Brosse of Boulevard Bourdon in Paris, indisputably makers of the highest quality glass bottles.
The difference is clearly visible even in our own range. The glass has no flaws, bubbles or faults.
The colours appear more even because of the way the glass is distributed in the finished piece.
There is as much labour producing a perfect ground stopper as there is in producing the “flacon” (the bottle) itself.
The manufacturer's cost of producing the bottle is the same as the cost of the stopper.
The stoppers are made in steel moulds. All glass moulds leave a part-line (a “flash-line”). The mould parting line on these perfectly fitting ground glass stoppers has been removed by “fire-polishing”.
The stoppers are mounted onto an iron frame that holds them in place while flames melt away the traces of the part line. Only Brosse ground stoppers form an air-tight seal which is re-enforced by an invisible polythene sealing ring which means that even in a pressurised aircraft cargo-hold the seal should be tight.
Sorry for the high postage costs to USA and Canada but USPS have increased their charges.