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1890s writing instrument

Patent drawing showing a tapered fountain penholder in side and sectional views, with a detailed close-up of the tubular feeder featuring a slotted tongue and a cross-section of the pen tip assembly.

PENHOLDER.James Martin, Joseph McCarty, Thomas Craft · March 17, 1896

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