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Napoleonic dip pen

This was found in the 1970s on the battlefield of Ligny. Does anyone know more about it and what kind of person might have used it





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john fortune
john fortune
Dec 16, 2021

The word 'pen' itself comes from an avian context, deriving from the Middle English penne, from Anglo-French, feather, pen, from Latin penna, pinna feather (Merriam Webster)

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