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Brief History of the Birmingham Pen Trade
»Interesting compilation of information on companies and
manufacturing processes, published by the Birmingham Pen Trade
Heritage Association — BPTHA« |
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 Welcome
to the nib site www.nibs.tk.
A web site about Steel pen nibs
and related items. BLAM design supplies new and vintage steel
pen nibs (pen points for dip pens) to Scandinavian Calligraphers,
Cartoonists and Collectors. (Some pages are in Swedish
only.)
Please
note: I do not have nibs or nib units for fountain pens
in stock. If you are looking for fountain pen nibs — check
the Fountain Pens
Gallery and the Fountain Pen Links
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Niblog is a weblog (blog) about steel pen nibs, writing
and drafting equipment, art, design, lettering, comics, fonts, calligraphy
and a few of my favorite sites on some of my favorite subjects.
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 Dear
Customer, due to a computer crash, the nibstore is temporarily closed.
Reopens in August 2005. Please note all orders have been posted, however
there has been some delay. |
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Special Introductory Offer —
Vintage
Nibs Sampler — Purchase
a collection of 25 different antique dip pen nibs for only $19.99
USD. Pay via PayPal. Free shipping and handling! One wood dip pen
holder included.
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Play
the Nib Game!!!
— Read
all about it in Somerset Maugham's novel »Of
Human Bondage« [FREE
rules online] |
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Steel Pens Catalogue and Gallery
• Steel
Pens (in Swedish)
• Brause
nibs
• C.
Brandauer Circular Pointed Pens
• R.
Esterbrook Art & Drafting Pens
»Esterbrook
company history
• Gillott
nibs
»Gillott
nib boxes
»Gillott
sample envelope
• Goode
& Co
• Graphos
pens, sets, nibs, nib chart
»Graphos
nibs for sale
»Graphos
Instructions
• Hinks,
Wells & Co Scratch knives
• Hiro
Leonardt nibs
• Hunt
Pen Points
• Ivison,
Phinney & Co
• Sir
Josiah Mason nibs
• F.
Soennecken nibs
• Spencerian
Steel Pen Co
 Nibs
& boxes from Argentina
• Vintage
pen catalogs
• Vintage
pen advertisements
• Steel
Pen Links [nibs, dipping pens, articles, collections, information,
museums, penholders, dealers, manufacturers, societies...]
• Nib
Care — Cleaning, Grinding and sharpening pen nibs
• Dream
Points — Hard to find nibs — the best pens for Ornamental
Script
The Nib Store
Reopens
in August 2005.
• One
dozen vintage Copperplate Nibs
NEW
• 25
vintage nibs assortment $19.99
• How
to Order
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English
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Swedish
Articles
 Lead
Shot Inkwells by Anthony Hogue
Recycling
Used Copperplate Nibs by Ludwig Tan
How
Steel Pens and Nibs Are Made
Who
was Josiah Mason?
Manga
Nibs — Japanese Pen Points 
Dream
Nibs — Most wanted nibs for Ornamental Script
Pens
and pen nibs used in US Navy drafting shops
Platt
Rogers Spencer — Biography
Gum
Arabic
Dictionary
• Look
up the words 'pen' and 'nib' in the Century-Dictionary
NIB
— pronunciation and etymology in Merriam-Webster's
dictionary
In Swedish
• Nordisk
familjebok 1891 — stålpennor
• Nordisk
familjebok "Ugglan" 1918 — stålpennor
Auctions
 Find
nibs at eBay!
Swedish
Auctions
• eBay
Sweden — Svenska auktioner
• Tradera
Köp och sälj på auktion
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the perfect gift
• Calligraphy
Catalog
• Fountain
Pens
• Pen
Nibs Silk Ties
• The
Nib Store
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1984
— George Orwell
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  Winston
fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease
off. The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for
signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some
difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the
beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real
nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil."
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Quote
from George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four
chapter 1, first published in 1949. |
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1984
online — links, images, quotes, summary, movies, posters...
Läs
citatet på
svenska — 1984 quote in Swedish
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Of
Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965) |
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mania ran through the school for a
game called Nibs. It was a game for two, played on a
table or a form with steel pens. You had to push your nib with
the finger-nail so as to get the point of it over your opponent's,
while he manoeuvred to prevent this and to get the point of
his nib over the back of yours..." read more... |
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Quote
from W. Somerset Maugham's Of
Human Bondage
chapter XII, first published in 1915. |
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Of
Human Bondage — Somerset Maugham links, images, quotes,
summary...
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Pen Poetry |
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A
Pen of Steel — George Pratt (1832-1875) |
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GIVE
me a pen of steel!
Away with the gray goose-quill!
I will grave the thoughts I feel
With a fiery heart and will:
I will grave with the stubborn pen
On the tablets of the heart,
Words never to fade again
And thoughts that shall ne'er depart." |
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»Read
the whole poem in the Yale
Book of American Verse on Bartleby.com
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Her
Nibs — Georgia Gibbs |
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 On
the Jimmy Durante Camel Caravan radio show, she received her
trademark nickname when host Garry Moore dubbed her "Her Nibs,
Miss Gibbs"
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design — Visit my other web pages about Lettering, Comics,
Handwriting and Calligraphy. Find out What's
new? |
BLAM design
Hans Presto
Box 172 48
SE-104 62 Stockholm
SWEDEN
 email
www.nibs.tk
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[this page: http://members.chello.se/blam/nibs/]
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Ordering and Shipping
Information
We accept Mastercard, Visa, Amex
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Nib Tips |
| Unreadable
nib numbers |
 "You
know those little numbers on your nib that you need a magnifying
glass to read and even then unless the light hits them correctly
they all look weird. Here is what you do: Take a white marker
and color over the numbers. Immediately wipe it off and the
white will stick in the numbers and you will be able to read
it more effectively."
• Elizabeth Gadus,
Cleveland, Ohio,
Cyberscribes
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 "A
properly inked nib should have ink covering the eyelet of the
nib. Ink should evenly adhere to the surface dipped in the ink
and should not bead up"
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Joe Vitolo, Ornamental
Penmanship Group
[message
9368] |
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What
is a nib?
-A small thin convex metal device that tapers to a split
point, fits into a holder, and is used for writing or
drawing. |
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Catalan
Plomí, Plomí d'acer
Danish
pen, stålpen, penne
Dutch pen, pennen
English steel pen, steel nib, dip
pen, pen point, pen-nib
Esperanto plumo, skriboplumo
Finnish terästerä
for drawing: piirustusterä
for lettering: tekstausterä
(terä = nib, blade)
French plume, plume d'acier, plumes
d'ecriture, plumes métalliques
German Feder, Federn, Stahlfeder,
Stahlfedern, Schreibfeder, Schreibfedern, Zeichenfeder, Bandzugfeder
Interlingua puncta (de pluma)
Italian pennini d'acciaio, pennino
Japanese pen-saki
(saki = point, tip)
Norwegian pen, penne, splitt, splitter
Portuguese pena para caligrafia,
pena de caligrafia, pena nanquim, pena de aço
Spanish pluma, plumas, plumilla,
plumillas, plumillas de acero, plumas de acero
Swedish stålpenna, stålpennor,
stålstift, ritstift, pennspets |
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What do you call nibs in your language?
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| Did
you know? |
| Calamophiliste
is a French word for nib collector - collectionneur de
plumes. |
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| Nécrologie
- Obituary |
”Jean-Pierre
Lacroux,
auteur, est mort le 12 novembre à Bruxelles à
l'âge de cinquante-cinq ans.”
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la suite...
• Jean-Pierre Lacroux died November 12. 2002.
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US Navy Nibs |
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Frog X-ray 1896 |
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Nib Game
Nib MarketWatch
The
Story of the Invention of Steel Pens
Highest auction prices on vintage nibs
Carl
Barks
La mémoire des
Il Pennino
Search Libraries and antiquarian booksellers
A
frog
with a steel nib inside was one of the first X-rays done in
Sweden.
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