[Vwoolf] The walrus pen-wiper in "The Years"

[Stuart N. Clarke]

I’ve always wondered what it looked like, “the spotted walrus with a brush in its back that Martin had given his mother on her last birthday”; “Eleanor was sitting at her writing-table with her pen in her hand. It's awfully queer, she thought, touching the ink-corroded patch of bristle on the back of Martin's walrus with the point of her pen, that that should have gone on all these years.”

It must have looked something like this pig pen-wiper:
http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/66080/large-antique-brass-figural-pen-or-nib-wipe-pig

Stuart
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