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Name: PEN BOUTIQUE LTD
Address: 5560 Sterrett Place, 101, Columbia, MD, 21044, United States
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Featured Story: History of Pen Stands/Holders

Posted on April 22, 2015

Portable pens that could carry its’ own ink supply were not perfected until fairly late in the 19th century. None of the great writers before that time, from Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Dickens, were in a position to enjoy such an instrument. Even Thomas Jefferson, who later in life sampled an early reservoir pen, had to fall back on the quill to draft the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For the first three millennia or so since the invention of paper, the writing instrument of choice in Western culture was the quill. One simply used a goose tail feather, the process...