Featured Box with Dip Pens and Eversharp Mechanical Pencil - Comments?

I sure missed everyone here while I traveled to Indochina. I got back three weeks ago but had a pile of things to do before coming here to enjoy myself.

I have questions about this box of writing instruments and am hoping to hear what you think. The box is wood with a metal button snap closure. It is 9 1/4 inches long, 2 inches wide and 1 1/4 inches tall.

The box has three compartments. I get the feeling that the items inside were used and then put away and forgotten. The top has a scene and is slightly curved. There is a label on the bottom with "95" and the rest is indecipherable to me.

The items inside include:

1. An Eversharp Mechanical Pencil - Silver Plate
2. A handmade, well-used, wood ruler
3. A lavender dip pen with a mark
4. A dip pen that was made to look like bamboo
5. A black dip pen
6. A hook of unknown purpose?
7. Several nibs with one that is marked in French

Please if any one has a lead or ideas especially about age, I would very much appreciate it.

 

Hook looks like maybe could be an old shoe button hook.............

 

I was thinking that but what would it be doing in this box?

 

it's a school box, the hook for getting in or out of school uniform fast....so the hook was placed in an easy to find receptacle .....

 

HAHAHA!! I TRY to keep like things together, but THAT doesn't always happen!! OTOH, maybe someone found a special purpose for it in among the pens!!! Sometimes there is no apparent rhyme or reason!!!

 

I've looked into several women's purses over the years....

what goes on inside them.....will baffle historians and archeological scholars.....for years to come !!

Already , they are asking if my wifes apple ...has a bus pass !!!!

 

I hadn't thought about a hook for school uniforms. I wore uniforms but they all had buttons. Maybe your experience was different.

 

It could be from an assortment of things in a drawer that they put together in order to donate it. I was thinking lacing on a book or journal cover. I have a silver boot hook and it is very like.

 

Hmmm. I have looked into men's pockets with amazement, especially what they think should go into washing machines.

 

I pick up boxes of old pens etc when I see them.
There are collectors of propelling pencils although the Eversharp silver plated ones don’t seem to go for a lot but worth researching the model.
There are avid dip pen collectors too so it’s worth looking twice at it to see if it’s a desirable type.
I think the dip pen says Faber.

 

I didn't know that. Thank you very much. I didn't know people collected dip pens. I'll have to do some research. I looked for the Eversharp pen and that wasn't worth much itself. It was black when I bought it, so it took time just to uncover some of the details. Thank you very much.

 

Glad to see you back, Kiko. Hope your trip was wonderful.

Being a bicycle rider, I'm a big fan of the box! What a cool piece.

 

Thanks for the welcome home. The box is what interested me. Te things inside were a bonus. I thought of them as clues.

 

welcome back.

 

Thank you, my friend.