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Antique Pens and Writing Relics
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  • 1. Old British term for a pen holder or case
  • 3. Metal tips of old fountain pens, replaced quills
  • 4. Short for manuscript or early written document, also related to writing tools
  • 5. Latin term for a reed pen used in ancient Rome
  • 6. French term for a pen, historically used in European scripts
  • 9. Feather-based writing tool once popular in medieval Europe
  • 12. Small container historically used to hold writing fluid
  • 13. Ancient tool sometimes used for etching and marking surfaces
  • 15. Latin word meaning 'feather', often used to describe quills
  • 19. A plant-based pen used in ancient Egypt for writing papyrus
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  • 2. Leaf material sometimes inscribed by early human writing systems
  • 7. Plural of a slender pointed tool used for scratching letters into wax tablets
  • 8. Short form for wax tablet, a reusable writing surface used in antiquity
  • 10. Ancient brooch sometimes used as a stylus for wax tablets
  • 11. Deliberate misspelling example avoided; replaced by 'QUILL'
  • 14. Compound word describing stylus used on a slate board
  • 16. Abandoned root referring to ‘plectrum’, unrelated to writing; replaced by 'STYLO'
  • 17. Historical term for a sharp-pointed tool, occasionally used for inscriptions
  • 18. Material commonly fashioned into pens in East Asia
  • 20. Flat surface once used with chalk or stylus for writing before paper
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