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RARE Shipwreck 1860's Victorian Porcelain Ink Well Set
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This auction includes a very rare inkwell quill writing set which is the exact one shown in the photographs. It was purchased with several others in the 1970s at an auction in Charleston. However, I understand that is was recovered from a English blockade runner that sunk in the Wilmington, North Carolina harbor. Unmarked but is characteristic of fine English porcelain. Sometimes mistaken for a tea or food service set. However, the shaker is a sand shaker to soak up excess ink that sometimes occurs when writing with dip ink. Small bowl in the front was used to hold the ink poured from a bottle. It was not covered so only the ink to be used was placed in the well in the front. The compartment on the right has a slotted lid to hold a single quill pen. This was not intended for a serving spoon because this compartment is not separated from the left compartment that hold the sand shaker. If this would have been a tea or service set, the compartments would have been separated inside to prevent the contents of the right side from interfering with the shaker which removes for use. Excellent condition with no damage. Wear to original decoration and gold trim. Ornate lids and handle. Probably intended for a plantation Southern Belle to be used as a desk set. Museum cleaned. Very rare and unusual ink desk set. Measures 5 1/4 inches across, 4 1/2 inches deep, and 4 1/2 inches tall. Again, not a tea service because the large compartments are open to each other inside. Tea services were always separated to keep the contents of one compartment from spilling into the other. Dates to early to mid 1800's.
The Union Blockade refers to the naval actions between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, in which the Union Navy maintained a massive effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy. Ships that tried to evade the blockade, known as blockade runners, were mostly newly built, high-speed ships with small cargo capacity. They were operated by the British (using Royal Navy officers on leave) and ran between Confederate-controlled ports and the neutral ports of Havana, Cuba; Nassau, Bahamas, and Bermuda, w British suppliers had set up supply bases. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the blockade on April 19, 1861. His strategy, part of the Anaconda Plan of General Winfield Scott, required the closure of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of Confederate coastline and twelve major ports, including New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, the top two cotton-exporting ports prior to the outbreak of the war, as well as the Atlantic ports of Richmond, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and Wilmington, North Carolina. To this end, Lincoln commissioned 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war; nonetheless, five out of six ships evading the blockade were successful. The blockade runners carried only a small fraction of the usual cargo. Thus, Confederate cotton exports were reduced 95% from 10 million bales in the three years prior to the war to just 500,000 bales during the blockade period. On April 19, 1861, President Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports: "Was an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed tin comformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires duties to be uniform throughout the United States: And was a combination of persons engaged in such insurrection, have threatened to grant pretended letters of marque to authorize the bearers tof to commit assaults on the lives, vessels, and property of good citizens of the country lawfully engaged in commerce on the high seas, and in waters of the United States: And was an Executive Proclamation... 
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