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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 New York Times WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1889
The Stylographic Pen.
Several bankers have refused to recognise
the signatures of their patrons
who've written with a stylographic pen.
Writing produced with these pens is
wanting in most of the essential and
habitual characteristics of writing, and
when executed with a two nibbed pen.
Whatever be the position of the pen or
the degree of the pressure, the line
made remains the same in quality and
in size. Such writing, therefore, not
only lacks character, but is quite easy
of imitation or forgery. On the other
hand, in writing executed with the
two nibbed pen the line is varied in
quality and shade by tho position of
the pen and degree ol pressure, angles
and turns are modified and more sharply
defined, thereby introducing into
writing the whole multitude of peculiar
characteristics that give character
and personal identity and render it
most difficult to imitate.