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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.
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Found in the Riverdale Pointer Feb 3rd 1923
FOUNTAIN PENS ARE FAVORED
Royalty of Europe Prefers Modern
Device to the Old Goose
Quill.
The instrument of all royal writers
of England prior to the Victorian age
was the quill pen, though in her later
years Queen Victoria abandoned her
prejudice against novelties so far as
to use the steel pen.
At the present time monarchs, like
their subjects, avail themselves of tie
improvements which human ingenuity
has wrought in the pen, and King
George, the queen mother, the prince
of Wales and Princess Mary are firm
devotees of the fountain pen. The pen
with a reservoir is equally popular
with the rulers of Italy, Belgium,
Spain and Rumania.
Those who are fortunate enough to
possess autographs of these exalted
personages may derive pleasure and
instruction from comparing their penmanship,
aided by the latest triumph
of mechanical invention, with that of
their predecessors, who had to depend
upon what the poet called "Nature's
noblest gift.-—the gray goose quill."