Pencil case for a fountain-pen (Calmadan). Persia, early 20th century.
Cardboard case covered with embroidered fabric.
The cardboard case is decorated with nice flowers; covered with colorful fabric with geometric decorations and flowers with an embroidered inscription with Hebrew letters (Persian).
Length: 22 cm, width: 4 cm, thickness: 3 cm. Fair condition. Damages to cardboard; tears and damages to embroidery.
See a similar item in "Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews"
(Beit Hatfutsot, Museum of the Jewish People, Tel-Aviv, 2010), p. 148.