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Four-finned bronze pen from the mid to late medieval period.Metal pens, or styli, had been in use for around fifteen hundred years prior to this, but nothing durable had been invented that held and controlled a flow of ink, so writers were reliant upon quill, reed or brush. This style of pen did retain a certain quantity of ink and, if held at just the right angle, could deliver an even flow without flooding. At the same time a metal pen shaped like a stripped quill was in use. Possibly due to the expense and the uneven flow, both ideas were quite quickly discarded, but reappeared made in glass with four, six or eight fins some four hundred years later. After these metal pens were found not to fulfil their aim of ink retention and flow, the next step in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was the fountain-pen. |
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