First off, the WWII buttons...
The albert chain, yes, the clip functions, the spring still springs inside it.
As you can see, the bear has suffered some damage. I suspect the eyes once had little glass jewels in them. Poor bear.
I got too excited and failed to set it to manual focus so it would use the depth of field correctly.
The back of the football medallion.
The inkwell... bit too much camera shake and I failed to set up the lights and utilise them for this. Perhaps it would have made it easier. Oh well, you get the idea. The brass body is wrapped in soft, thin black leather with gold stamp.
The bottom of the inkwell with attached paper label.
Gently press the button on the front of the body and it pops open to reveal this:
Gently press aside the righthand clip and you can see inside.
With the little glass bottle removed so you can see it as well as the inkwell. The inner lid has a spring to help keep the ink inside the bottle and yes, the spring still works. It's a clever little object and the leafy scroll engraving in the brass is very nice.
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