There is a story behind this inkwell. I remember when dad got it. We were on holidays in St. John's and were in Bowring Park(this was probably in the early 70's). There was an old house in the park, I believe it belonged to Sir Richard Squires but I am not sure. We went in the house, it was falling down and full of rubble. There were a lot of inkwells like this in there, most of them were broken. Dad found a good one and took it. I seem to recall he was talking to someone who worked at the park so he probably was allowed to take it and didn't just steal it. The inkwell was kept on one of the end tables in the living room. It just sat there for years, no one ever put anything in it like a pen. Whenever someone new would come to the house Dad would always get them to guess what it was.
This was my brother's book. I never read it but when I saw it on eBay I remembered the cover. I asked my brother if he remembered it and he said yes, that they hunted down a cougar/mountain lion in the story. I vaguely remember watching Bonanza on tv.
We owned all of these Roy Rogers & Dale Evans records but I don't ever remember listening to them. I remember wanting to listen to one of them because their children sang some songs with them on one of the records and I was fascintaed with their children (2 of their daughters were adopted and I thought they were so beautiful). But Mom said the record was scratched and would not play........yet we still kept it in the record box with all the other records (few things were thrown out in our house). 
