A Tintenfass is a container for the keeping of ink for the preparation of handwriting by means of a pen. The Tintenfass was for many centuries an indispensable implement for handwritten reports, up to the invention of the stylograph. To its displacement by other write techniques collecting came toward end 20. Century in mode. The most in demand pieces of collecting tank originate from the period from the American one and the French revolution into the 1930er years.

History

Beginnings

With security the ink before the Tintenfass was invented, in form of an india ink from soot, rubber arabicum and water with the Chinese and Egyptians around 2600 v. Chr. On papyrus and Pergament light and air-steady ink, the so-called ice close all US ink, became in the 3. Century v. Chr. created. Eisengallus consisted of the Sud of cooked which was shifted with iron vitriol. Old ink designs are often recognizable from the back of the sheet, since iron vitriol decomposes the paper.

The beginnings of the Tintenfasses lie in the dark. However ink bottles from the antique one are received. The first simple and plain as for instance cow horns had only the task to keep and keep so long in liquid condition the ink as possible. In the late Middle Ages successful buyers and craftsman began to make the Tintenfass their status symbol.

The Middle Ages

From the Tintenfass table write things, which could consist of carved and richly verzierten cartridges, box shaped containers and the pertinent containers for ink and recorder, became gradual. As is the case for many utensils the reflected in particular trends, taste, spirit of the time and culture of humans, who sketched and manufactured them.

Simple silver write things gave it for instance since end 15. Century. Splendour-fully ornamentierte an ink witness came into 16. Century up.

Modern times

Craftsmen such as silver silberschmiede, metal worker and furniture carpenter created 18 at the beginning. Century an ink barrel boom. Their products with complex formed and ziselierten write sets and sand spreaders combined the silver silberschmiede, which admits up to then for above all their artful manufactured tablet and Kerzenleuchter was. In the northwest of the United States of America 18 developed for the end. Century more than 70 Tintenfass Manufakturen. World-wide at this time several hundred enterprises produced.

The ink for the signing of the Declaration OF Independence of the USA was in a Tintenfass from genuine Sterlingsilber, while of Abraham Lincoln zierte workbench a Tintenfass carved from wood.

The wedding of the 19. Century

The "“golden age"” of the Tintenfasses began however only in the late Victoriani age, thus in the second half 19. Century. Here richly verzierte silver write things on silver tray from pure Sheffield dominated the silver. Thus for instance admiral Lord Nelson attached great importance to always lead its Sheffield Plate on journeys to water and to country with itself. Also yard ladies and stationed ink barrel ensembles on their dressing-tables.

Travel ink barrels with safe catches against running out the ink in bags and travel suit-cases became particularly of commercial travellers in 18. and 19. Century uses.

The began to disappear with the innovation of the stylograph in the year 1884 from the market to. The invention of the ball-point pen in the year 1932 introduced the final fall of the Tintenfasses. But still into the 1950er years sat the pupils of the primary school at school benches, which were provided in an opening at the front edge with a Tintenfass from porcelain.

Literature

By the picture poem history was set for the Tintenfass by the black boys in Heinrich Hoffmann Struwwelpeter a literary and ikonographisches monument. In this parabola the Nikolaus appears as punishing instance, which small boys into a Tintenfass puts, because they had scoffed a dark-membranous boy.

• In Hans's Christian Andersens one fairy tale over the controversy of feather/spring and tintenfass the origin question is varied by hen or egg.
• Since 1965 the inhabitant of zurich paperback publishing house Diogenes edits its yearly magazine the German tintenfass on the occasion of the Frankfurt book fair, starting from 1980 renamed into the tintenfass. The magazine for the overtaxed intellectual one.

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