History of the invention and illustrated process of making Foley's diamond pointed gold pens . WWmm ill,: Bar of fine gold (exact size) as received from the United States Assay Office, ready for melting to manufacture FOLEYS CELEBRATED BANK GOLD PENS. 44 The Pen is an instrument for writing with a fluid. Pens ofsome kind have been in use from very ancient times, and were ofvarious kinds, adapted to the material upon which the written char-acters were to be impressed. Upon stone or metallic plates, graversof steel served for writing, and such are referred to by Job, inspeaking of an Iron Pen. F
History of the invention and illustrated process of making Foley's diamond pointed gold pens . WWmm ill,: Bar of fine gold (exact size) as received from the United States Assay Office, ready for melting to manufacture FOLEYS CELEBRATED BANK GOLD PENS. 44 The Pen is an instrument for writing with a fluid. Pens ofsome kind have been in use from very ancient times, and were ofvarious kinds, adapted to the material upon which the written char-acters were to be impressed. Upon stone or metallic plates, graversof steel served for writing, and such are referred to by Job, inspeaking of an Iron Pen. For the waxen tablets of the ancients ametallic Stylus was employed, one end of which was sharpened formarking, and the other end was flattened for erasing the marks andsmoothing the wax. It was also the practice in ancient times, asamong the Chinese at the present day, to paint the letters with afine hair pencil. Pens of Reed Were made at a very early period for the use of a fluid ink uponpapyrus. The reed for these Pens was found in Egypt, and it isstill used in oriental countries. The in
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