by Arthur T. <arthur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jun 7, 2008 at 12:42 PM
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Edward Green <spamspamspam3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>It's so amazing I'm not sure I believe it was mechanically executed by
>a human being in the 19th century, rather than a machine in the
>20/21st. A weird sort of forgery if it was.
Notice the date. That's the year that Waterman "patented the
first practical fountain pen." Before such, no line this long
could be drawn in "a single stroke of the pen." I would not be
surprised to find that this was commissioned by Waterman for
publicity purposes.
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Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" intergate "dot" com
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