SUPERIOR DESK KNIVES,
Manufactured in Paris of Damascus Steel and warranted.
Also—an assortment of Steel & Silver Pens, from the Shaker Village. For sale by
JOHN M. IVES,
Dec. 11 [1824].
Essex street.
Many young people do not know that in old times blotting-paper of the kind now in use had not been introduced. Black sand was used altogether for drying the ink on freshly written letters or ordinary writing, except in books, when the writers either waited for the ink to dry, or made China paper, taken from the inside of tea-chests, a blotter. Black sand was in general use until within thirty years or thereabouts. We have seen the sand adhering to writing which had been done more than a century. No writing-desk was complete without a sand-box.
BLACK SAND,
Which is ſo uſeful to all who have any thing to do with penmanſhip—for ſale, at No. 34, oppoſite the Treaſurer's-Office, in Marlborough-Street.