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Collecting Writing Instruments: From the Flint Tool to the Stylus : From the Quill Pen to the Fountain Pen and Felt-Tip Marker
Dietmar Geyer
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Description for Collecting Writing Instruments: From the Flint Tool to the Stylus : From the Quill Pen to the Fountain Pen and Felt-Tip Marker
Hardcover. From the flint tool to the stylus, from quill pen to fountain pen to felt-tip marker, this book invites readers to develop or deepen their love for beautiful old writing instruments. Contains hundreds of contemporary engravings, illustrations, advertisements, photos, and catalog and brochure excerpts. Num Pages: 176 pages, Hundreds of illustrations. BIC Classification: WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 310 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1342.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780887402722
SKU
V9780887402722
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99-2
About Dietmar Geyer
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.
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