Introduction

Collecting fountain pens can be addictive for some people, but most people, except perhaps the addict’s spouse or partner, would agree that there are far worse addictions.All pens, except fresh out of the shop new pens, have some sort of history,...

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Acknowledgements

We should like to acknowledge and take this opportunity to thank all the historic and postmodern pen inventors and many exceptional pen people as well as our contemporary pen friends and institutions for their assistance in making this work...

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Inspired by

Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik), Nicholas Bion, Kaspar von Faber, Joseph Bramah, Thomas de la Rue, Petrache Poenaru, Alfred Nehemias, August Eberstein, Claus Johannes Voss, Lewis Waterman, George Safford Parker, Walter A. Sheaffer, Carl...

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