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Six diagrams labeled 1 through 6 showing the progressive shaping of a gold pen nib, from a flat blank with a slot marked A, through curved forms with an open slit marked B, to a finished closed nib marked C at the tip.

METALLIC PEN.Matthew S. Fife · April 3, 1849

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