Figural inkwell '' Hooligan and apple seller'' , Lomonosov, St. Petersburg, Russia, design Natalia Danko ( 1892-1942), in 1926, u. signed, export mark Made in USSR late 1920s-early 1930s, sitting girl with apple and dog, beside her sitting young man with a bottle of vodka in his hand, an allusion to the fact that in 1925 an excise tax on alcohol increased, in front of you the inkpot in the form of an apple basket, polychrome painted, h. 12.5 cm, w. 17 cm