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Collecting Writing Instruments: Flint Tools, Stylus, Quill Pen to Fountain Pens

Collecting Writing Instruments: Flint Tools, Stylus, Quill Pen to Fountain Pens

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From the flint tool to the stylus, from the quill pen to the fountain pen and felt-tip marker, this book invites one to develop anew or deepen one's love for beautiful old writing instruments. Hundreds of contemporary engravings, illustrations, advertisements, photos, and catalog and brochure excerpts accompany the reader through the written history of the quill pen, pencil fountain pen and paper and their use. Here editors and journalists, salespeople, architects, students, and above all, collectors of historic writing instruments, will find facts about the origin, variations, and further development of one of the most important and personal of our useful tools-the writing instrument.

Beginning with the origins of writing, Geyer covers the early writing instruments, steel pens, pencil, fountain pens, ball-point pens, and even the felt-tip marker. The greatest emphasis is on beautiful historical fountain pens. The major brands studied include Conway-Stewart, Cross, Edding, Faber-Castell, Geha, Kaeco, Lamy, Montblanc, Onoto, Parker, Pelikan, Senator, Schwan-Stabilo, Sheaffer, Soennecken, Staedtler, Swan Wahl-Eversharp, Waterman.

Hundreds of illustrations

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  • Collecting Writing Instruments: From the Flint Tools to the Stylus - From the Quill Pen to the Fountain Pen and Felt-tip Marker

    Dietmar Geyer

    9780887402722

  • Binding: Hard Cover with dust jacket

    Copyright: 1990

    Pages: 176

    Size: 9.38 x 12.5 in.

    Condition: New

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