Bookish gift idea #21: The perpetual pen

It’s sold under the rather prosaic name Metal Pen, but I prefer to think of it as the Perpetual Pen. Here’s the description:

In the Medieval period, artists and scribes often used a metal stylus in order to draw on a specially prepared paper surface. Generally known as Metalpoint, or Silverpoint when the stylus was made of silver, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Rembrandt all used this technique. […]

The pens we sell are a modern version (and do not use silver). The solid metal ‘nib’ consists of a metal alloy, that leaves a mark on most types of paper. If you use the sort of paper typically used in printers and photocopiers, the pen leaves a mark that looks as if it was made by a pencil. However the line will not smudge, and cannot easily be rubbed out. This has a number of advantages, especially if you are left handed!

Since there is no ink, there is nothing to dry out, so the pen will work just as well in 25 years time as it does today.

A pen that never runs out, always at the ready to capture your ideas. Doesn’t that sound like a writer’s dream? The Metal Pen is available at Grand Illusions. (Via Fuel Your Writing.)

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