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Vintage Writing Tools and Techniques is a medium crossword puzzle with 17 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.

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Vintage Writing Tools and Techniques
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  • 1. Metal tip of a fountain or dip pen
  • 2. Ancient pointed instrument for scratching wax tablets
  • 4. Latin term for early reed pen-like writing tool (accept historical variant)
  • 6. Tool used to reload ink onto a pen before fountain designs
  • 7. Writing tool fashioned from hollow plant stems
  • 9. Medieval writing tool resembling a small wooden stylus
  • 11. Feather pen used before metal nibs became standard
  • 14. Material once used as a writing surface, not a tool but essential
  • 17. Thin tablet surface used with chalk for temporary writing
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  • 3. Brownish ink made from cuttlefish ink sacs, used historically
  • 5. Carved item occasionally used as a stamp for ink impressions
  • 8. Short for apograph, an obsolete copying tool related to writing
  • 10. Surface once used to roughen nibs or erase pencil marks
  • 12. Historical term for a type of pen used in medieval scripts
  • 13. Small container holding fluid essential for traditional pens
  • 15. Soft limestone stick used on blackboards before markers
  • 16. Soft instrument once common for calligraphy and ink application
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