Collecting Writing Instruments (From the Flint Tool to the Stylus: From the Quill Pen to the)

Geyer, Dietmar

ISBN 10: 0887402720 / ISBN 13: 9780887402722

Published by Schiffer, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collecting Writing Instruments (From the Flint Tool to the Stylus: From the Quill Pen to the)
• Publisher: Schiffer
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887402720
• ISBN 13: 9780887402722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Dietmar Geyer has devoted himself professionally and privately to writing and its instruments. Professionally he is concerned with the sober, technical side of writing--the production and sales of writing instruments of an internationally famous brand. Privately, the author is a dedicated collector of writing instruments of all kinds.