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Romance of Pen Industries
This book is interesting to read, partly because it is a window into the extreme colonial views of the British towards India in the early 1900s (the preface alone makes...
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Parker Duofold
This book by David Shepherd and Dan Zazove is a must-read/have for anyone researching the history of the Duofold series of pens. You can borrow the book for a period...
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Parker Duofold Senior
This NOS (New, Old Stock) Duofold Senior was made in 1925 (the date can be established by the fact that it has a single flush cap band or ‘girdle’ as...
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Rosendahl’s “dipless” pen
This is an integrated dip pen and inkwell made by Rosendahls with a porcelain base made by Rörstrand in Sweden. The one thing missing in this set is the feeder...
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NOS Skribents
I was recently fortunate enough to come across some New Old Stock Skribent Senior 4 and Super 4 pens. As is mentioned in Holten and Lund’s book “Montblanc in Denmark”,...
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Papers and Inks
This is just a test I did of 6 different inks on 6 different papers. The shots below are taken with a USB microscope, looking at the top left of...
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Oblique dip pen holder
I’m currently taking an online course in Copperplate calligraphy with Chantelle Hoffmann at Bespoke Strokes. One problem that I had was in finding an oblique dip pen holder here in...
