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Civil war era patent

Two patent drawings of a 19th-century fountain pen: Figure 1 shows a hand holding the assembled pen with a tapering nib, and Figure 2 shows a cutaway internal view revealing a central rod, conical stopper, rocking lever, spring, and air-vent plug mechanism inside a tubular case.

FOUNTAIN-PENJoseph Weller · September 29, 1863

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