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Wondering how old these nibs might be.


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Nearly a month ago, I went to the local flea-market looking for watches and pens and such-related items of interest.

 

While I was at said-market, I found a rather rusty tin box with a sticker on it which proudly proclaimed:

 

"$15 FOR THE LOT"

 

The lot of what?, I thought. I opened the box and it was overflowing (Literally, I almost couldn't get the box shut again! :lol: ) with steel dip-pen nibs.

 

The nibs were of varying levels of rustiness and usefulness and seemed to be a really mixed bag. Anyway, I bought this box and toddled off home. I tipped the entire nibby mess out onto my desk and started picking through them. By the time I had done, I had at a rough guess - counted about 150 nibs. Of these, about 80 or 90 were nice and clean or had a minimal amount of rust. I set these aside to write with.

 

These nibs were a bit of challenge at first, but now I've gotten the swing of things and they're really quite fun. They're nice and flexible, too. I took out a magnifier and had a look at the nib-shafts, they were engraved with:

 

M MYERS & SON (something after, indiscernible).

3141

BRIMINGHAM

 

And then on the right, going down, after all that: ENGLAND.

 

How old might these nibs be? Some of them were just rusty scrap, but others (the 80-90 which I mentioned) looked brand-new.

 

EDIT: Photos of these nibs will come when I find the camera, which has gone AWOL...

Edited by Shangas

http://www.throughouthistory.com/ - My Blog on History & Antiques

 

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