http://chappysnibs.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Spencerian_9Spencerian 9 - Revision history2026-08-09T00:45:51ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.1http://chappysnibs.com/index.php?title=Spencerian_9&diff=1350&oldid=prevGBASysop at 17:57, 13 February 20212021-02-13T17:57:22Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The asterisk-shaped vent hole is unusual for bank pens. Most bank pens have a vent hole in the shape of a torch. (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">e.g., </del>[https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/344473-the-shape-of-the-hole/ AAAndrew])</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The asterisk-shaped vent hole is unusual for bank pens. Most bank pens have a vent hole in the shape of a torch. ([https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/344473-the-shape-of-the-hole/ AAAndrew])</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The asterisk-shaped vent hole is unusual for bank pens. Most bank pens have a vent hole in the shape of a torch. (e.g., [<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[Esterbrook 14 v1]</del>])</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The asterisk-shaped vent hole is unusual for bank pens. Most bank pens have a vent hole in the shape of a torch. (e.g., [<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/344473-the-shape-of-the-hole/ AAAndrew</ins>])</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td></tr>
</table>GBASysophttp://chappysnibs.com/index.php?title=Spencerian_9&diff=1348&oldid=prevGBASysop at 17:55, 13 February 20212021-02-13T17:55:36Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/2018/12/07/pen-shapes-a-proposed-glossary/ Steel Pen blog] describes the Bank Pen nib as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/2018/12/07/pen-shapes-a-proposed-glossary/ Steel Pen blog] describes the Bank Pen nib as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td></tr>
</table>GBASysophttp://chappysnibs.com/index.php?title=Spencerian_9&diff=1347&oldid=prevGBASysop at 17:53, 13 February 20212021-02-13T17:53:27Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ Spencerian sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ Spencerian sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">category</del>/pen-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">types</del>/ Steel Pen blog] describes the Bank Pen nib as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2018/12/07</ins>/pen-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shapes-a-proposed-glossary</ins>/ Steel Pen blog] describes the Bank Pen nib as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td></tr>
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</table>GBASysophttp://chappysnibs.com/index.php?title=Spencerian_9&diff=963&oldid=prevGBASysop at 18:09, 8 February 20212021-02-08T18:09:37Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Spencerian </del>[https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Spencerian </ins>sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/category/pen-types/ Steel Pen blog] describes the Bank Pen nib as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/category/pen-types/ Steel Pen blog] describes the Bank Pen nib as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td></tr>
</table>GBASysophttp://chappysnibs.com/index.php?title=Spencerian_9&diff=928&oldid=prevGBASysop: /* Versions */2021-02-07T20:04:30Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Versions</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are no additional versions of the '''Spencerian #9 Bank Pen''' in the Chappy's Nibs collection, as pictured below (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gold</del>-finish).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are no additional versions of the '''Spencerian #9 Bank Pen''' in the Chappy's Nibs collection, as pictured below (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tar</ins>-finish).</div></td></tr>
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</table>GBASysophttp://chappysnibs.com/index.php?title=Spencerian_9&diff=927&oldid=prevGBASysop at 20:04, 7 February 20212021-02-07T20:04:05Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is only one version </del>of the Spencerian 9 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nib </del>in the Chappy's Nibs collection<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The nib </del>pictured below <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is '''Spencerian 9'''</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are no additional versions </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>Spencerian <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">#</ins>9 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bank Pen''' </ins>in the Chappy's Nibs collection<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, as </ins>pictured below <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(gold-finish)</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A Spencerian [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A Spencerian [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/category/pen-types/ Steel Pen blog] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">described </del>the Bank Pen as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/category/pen-types/ Steel Pen blog] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">describes </ins>the Bank Pen <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nib </ins>as "a long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though the Bank pen is sometimes classified as a Beaked pen, I think there’s enough of a difference between the very common “Bank” pen shape and the longer tines of the rest of the beaked pens that I call out the Bank as a separate shape."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A Spencerian [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A Spencerian [https://in.pinterest.com/pin/346706871291054636/ sample card] includes the #9 Bank Pen among 26 samples. It is included in the section of the card for Fine Pointed nibs.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/category/pen-types/ Steel Pen blog] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">references </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history of Turned Up Point Pens in ''The American Stationer'' (2/12/1889): "The first steel pens made in Birmingham about </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">year 1837, while providing </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ready made instrument for penmen</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">failed to give that ease in writing which was the characteristic </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old quill. [Steel pens] were uniformly fine pointed </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">naturally more or less scratchy. The remedy for this was not found until a generation later, when ... </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">happy idea occurred to turn up the points. ... The penman can write </del>longer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with less fatigue than with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ordinary styles. The tediousness </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">writing is almost entirely avoided, and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relief is so complete </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it converts a drudgery into </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">delight</del>."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>AAAndrew's [https://thesteelpen.com/category/pen-types/ Steel Pen blog] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">described the Bank Pen as "</ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long, straight pen with longer tines than normal, but not as long as a Beaked pen. Though </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bank pen is sometimes classified as </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Beaked pen</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I think there’s enough </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a difference between </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very common “Bank” pen shape </ins>and the longer <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tines of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rest </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beaked pens </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I call out the Bank as </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">separate shape</ins>."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[http://hans.presto.tripod.com/nibs/spencerian.html The Blam Nib site] says that The Spencerian Steel Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the Ivison Phinney Publishing Company, later known as Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Co., and finally in 1869 as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The New York City-based pen company (Spencerian Steel Pen Co.), was a pen distribution company that purchased its nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham, England, by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co. This explains why many Spencerian nibs have markings for both New York, N.Y. and England.</div></td></tr>
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