Thank you for viewing. This is a new, unused item, stored at home, an old Chinese ink stick. It was carefully kept by my grandmother, who was a calligrapher. Chinese Painting Ink Stick, Tessai Oga Hoga Boku Finest Quality Ink, Oil Smoke 101 Approximately 11cm x 3cm There is no box or instruction manual. It will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped via Yu-Packet Post Mini.