1747 R. Campbell xxvi. 127 Some of all these Trades deal in Stationary Ware, which in these Shops consist of Paper, Pens, Ink, Sand, Sand-Boxes, Wafers..Ink Standishes, Pounce-Boxes..and Memorandum Books.
1820 C. Lamb in Aug. 143/1 The pounce-boxes of our days have gone retrograde.
1998 A. Fadiman (2000) 75 An eighteenth-century inkstand—complete with..pounce box (to hold the desiccant powder), and wafer box (to hold the paste sealing wafers)—was a monument to the physical act of writing.