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A Vintage Ink Pen And Removable Nib
This pen and nib is a good example of how letters were written in days gone by. Before these came the quill pen made from a feather of a large bird. These were popular from 600AD to around 1800 AD. A metal pen point has been patented in 1803 but patent was not commercially exploited. Steel, removable nibs like the one in the photograph came into common use in the 1830s. Then came the fountain pen, which became the everyday tool for business in the 1940’s and 50’shad to be overtaken by the ball-point pen in the 1960’s.