A blog about antique and vintage writing instruments: fountain pens, mechanical (propelling) pencils, dip pens, and more.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
The opposite of flex
While some sought flexibility, others required rigidity -- and nibs didn't get much more rigid than this. The "Beaver" has a steel nib, shaped so as to provide channels to conduct and hold ink by capillary action. From what I have been able to find, it was introduced in the early 1920s, and was made in England.
The nib writes quite smoothly. "Indestructible" isn't much of an exaggeration -- this tip might as well have been advertised as "armor piercing".
Labels:
dip pens,
nibs,
odd and unusual
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