One of humanity’s greatest achievements is probably the development of writing: from love poems to marriage contracts, from promissory notes to setting up a business, everything can be done with writing and, in some cases, with elegant writing instruments – exciting, curious and beautiful things that are part of forgotten cultural technology.
“It’s fascinating!” says Joachim Eichert, who has been collecting writing instruments such as pens and inkwells, fountain pens and pencils for 40 years, but only intensified this passion in 2017, when he parked his motorcycle forever.
“Before the war, all fountain pens were artfully designed, but not anymore. During the war, when metal was not yet available, the writing points were made of glass,” says the former employee of the State Archives, who still conducts extensive research into many areas of history and points to a glass specimen from his extensive collection.
Source: Krone
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