Used in the mid 1800s, these unique shaped glass bottles, reminiscent of a tea kettle, were advertised as a superior ink well for the time. When he saw the high price of the opening bid ...

and it turned out to be a glass bottle," Hume said. He used his phone to photograph the folded note inside the jar, on which he could distinguish a name written in ink: "W S Cruikshank," the name ...