Fountain pen
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A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink to paper.
Close-up of traditional fountain pen with an iridium-tipped stainless steel nib
Various contemporary and vintage fountain pens (left to right): Pilot Justus 95 Pelikan Souverän M1000 Montblanc Meisterstück 149 Pilot Heritage 912 Parker Duofold Centennial Sheaffer Snorkel Admiral Lamy Dialog 3 Welty Parker Sonnet Conway Stewart 55 Waterman Thorobred Mabie Todd Swan 3220
Waterman 42 Safety Pen, with variation in materials (both red and black hard vulcanized rubbers or ebonite) and retracting nibs
"Waterman's ideal fountain pen" 1908 ad
Quill
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A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/steel-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventua
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…is shown by contemporary references. In Deliciæ Physico-Mathematicæ (a 1636 magazine), German inventor Daniel Schwenter described a pen made from two quills. One quill served as a reservoir for ink inside the other quill. The ink was sealed inside the quill with cork. Ink was squeezed through a small hole…
Quill and a parchment
Ink bottle and quill
A nib cut from a bird's quill
Feathers in stages of being made into quills