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Pens are a great way for people to remember you. Whether you choose a personalized click pen, a cheap twist pen, or the old-fashioned stick pen, these pens are at great prices, making this an economical way to advertise. You can imprint with text and with logos or other artwork, in black, white, red, lt. blue, medium blue, dark blue, lt. green, medium green, dark green, brown, purple, yellow, teal, maroon, orange, gold, or silver. For neon colored pens, black is recommended for text and logos.
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The pens are based on Karen's series of Magical Mystical Tour abstracts, currently exhibited in the Digital Long Island Festival National Juried Competition at Mills Pond House Gallery in St. James, NY, through January 11, 2008. "Karen Sperling's work takes the viewer on a high octane roller coaster ride beyond reality and imagination. All aboard!" notes Bob Hogge, Gallery Director at Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery in Chelsea, New York City, where the Magical Mystical Tours abstracts were on display earlier this year. "Love your work -- it stands out in a crowd," adds Roger Loyd, Gallery Director of Gallery Loyd, Oslo, Norway. Each Magical Mystical Pen is a unique work of art created personally by Karen, and is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity.
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Antique and rare pens are real value items, especially in online trading markets like Ebay. The pen Adolf Hitler used would be worth a fortune, if unachievable, whereas a limited edition Mont Blanc can appreciate monetary value in the space of six short months!
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Reed pens are made by first removing the barbs fromm the shaft. The larger end is cut across the shaft. That end is then cut again, about 'h inch from the end, halfway through, curving toward the end. The cut is completed by continuing toward the end and cutting down the middle of the shaft. The same type of cut is made again along the remaining half of the shaft, starting about '/4 inch from the end. The resulting tapered point can then be further shaped to a point or left in a chisel.
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Metallic pens, though not unknown in classical times - a bronze pen found at Pompeii is in the Naples Museum - were little used until the 19th century and did not become common till near the middle of that century. It is recorded that a Birmingham split-ring manufacturer, Samuel Harrison, made a steel pen for Dr Joseph Priestley in 1780. Steel pens made and sold in London by a certain Wise in 1803 were in the form of a tube or barrel, the edges of which met to form the slit, while the sides were cut away as in the case of an ordinary quill. Their price was about five shillings each, and as they were hard, stiff and unsatisfactory instruments they were not in great demand. A metallic pen patented by ' "Instrumenta scribae calamus et penna; ex his enim verba paginis infiguntur; sed calamus arboris est, penna avis, cujus acumen dividitur in duo." Bryan Donkin in 1808 was made of two separate parts, flat or nearly so, with the flat sides placed opposite each other to form the slit, or alternatively of one piece, flat and not cylindrical as in the usual form, bent to the proper angle for insertion in the tube which constituted the holder.
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Drawing pen nibs are simple metal versions of traditional quill pens. They are capable of downward as well as side-to-side strokes. Because of the pointed tip, an upward stroke results in the pen point stabbing the surface. Most writing pen nibs have a semicircular shape at the tip, which has the appearance of a droplet of metal or looks as if the tip had been folded back and underneath. This allows for making the upward stroke without stabbing the surface. You might think this would ... be ideal for drawing, and you would be right.
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