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  2. Quill - Wikipedia

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    Quill and a parchment. A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. [1] Ink bottle and quill

  3. Nib (pen) - Wikipedia

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    A quill has the advantage of being more durable and more flexible than a reed pen, and it can also retain ink in the hollow shaft of the feather, known as the calamus, allowing more writing time between ink dippings. The quill was in common use until the early 19th century and the advent of the metal nib.

  4. A. T. Cross Company - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1846, it is one of the oldest pen manufacturers in the world. Cross' products include fountain, ballpoint, and rollerball pens, mechanical pencils and refills. The company also manufactures accessories for those goods such as cases and wallets. The company has also owned Sheaffer, another pen manufacturer, since 2014. [3]

  5. Pen - Wikipedia

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    A luxury pen. A pen is a common writing instrument that applies ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. [1] Early pens such as reed pens, quill pens, dip pens and ruling pens held a small amount of ink on a nib or in a small void or cavity that had to be periodically recharged by dipping the tip of the pen into an inkwell.

  6. List of pen types, brands and companies - Wikipedia

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    A pen is a handheld device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. [1] Additional types of specialized pens are used in specific types of applications and environments such as in artwork, electronics, digital scanning and spaceflight, and computing.

  7. Newell Custom Writing Instruments - Wikipedia

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    Newell Custom Writing Instruments (formerly Sanford Business-to-Business, abbreviated Sanford B2B) [2] is an American manufacturing company of stationery products. It is a division of Newell Brands, producing writing implements, in its plant of Atlanta, Georgia.

  8. Writing implement - Wikipedia

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    A dip pen has a steel nib (the pen proper) and a pen-holder. Dip pens are very versatile, as the pen-holder can accommodate a wide variety of nibs that are specialized for different purposes: copperplate writing, mapping pens, and five-pointed nibs for drawing music staves. They can be used with most types of ink, some of which are incompatible ...

  9. Dip pen - Wikipedia

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    The oblique dip pen was designed for writing the pointed pen styles of the mid 19th to the early 20th century such as Spencerian Script, although oblique pen holders can be used for earlier styles of pointed penmanship such as the copperplate scripts of the 18th and 19th centuries. As the name suggests, the nib holder holds the nib at an ...

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