Taube created tin candlesticks, seal stamps, paperweights, cigarette boxes, and inkwells. Old school desks had round holes for inkwells. Individual compartments were designed to hold inkwells, pens, sealing wax, and other contemporary writing materials. Other items in the building include crank telephones, oak desks, dictaphones, inkwells, and adding machines. Old books, inkwells, lunch pails and the wooden stove round out the exhibit. He interpreted the room above locus 30 as a "scriptorium" because he discovered inkwells there. Inkwells are provided beneath the bridge for each pen at corresponding locations. He claimed to have the UK's largest collection of inkwells. Students began throwing stones and inkwells, breaking windows.