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This is a collection of Fountain Pen Articles, Fountain Pen Histories and Fountain Pen Essays that have been published either online or in obscure books or jorunals. Things that I found while doing research on other pen topics and I thought were too good to be lost to obscurity and should be put online where a Google search could unearth them easily for the fountain pen enthusiast and fountain pen researcher.. If you know of an article that should be placed here, please let me know.
Feel free to use this information as you like, but I would appreciate a mention for the Kamakura pens site if you publish an article, or book with information gathered here. Recently, I have seen people publish pen articles exclusively from my archive with out any mention at all and that always breaks my heart.
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Found in the Appleton Crescent June 1865
Crescent for June 17. 1865.
The gold pen "Vicksburg."
which realized some 8,500 for
the soldiers in the Sanitary
Fair at New York, has been
presented to Lt. Gen Grant by
the manufacturer of the article.
Mr. John Foley, of New
York.
The pen is diamond-pointed,
and the barrel portion of the
holder made of fine gold,
bears an engraving of an
American Eagle, with the
motto "E Pluribus Unum"
done in the most exquisite
style of the graver's art.
The pen itself has inscribed
upon it, "Vicksburg, Lieutsnent
General Grant, United
States Army."
One ounce of the fine gold is
used in the pen and holder.
The handle is of ivory, and the
whole affair is rich and
tasteful.
The General himself expressed
as much with the compliment,
and remarked that the question
whether the pen is
mightier than the sword has
never yet been fully and
definitely settled.