One can only imagine what life was like in the Annexe for Anne Frank. The Anne Frank Huis is now an empty shell which echoes with the footsteps of pilgrims. ...

The glass cabinet of the stationery shop is the world in a teacup. The glass cabinet resides in a small local shop in central Athens which seems to have survived ...

The scales are falling from my eyes: I lived too long in a state of stylistic innocence. The categorical imperative, "Thou shalt and must write," has aroused me. I tried ...

This is not the first time that Mont Blanc honours a famous personage by issuing a writing instrument of choice. It is also not the first time that the instrument ...

The stationery store of Mr Katsikas calls itself a bookshop and toy store too. It is very spacious. The walls are totally concealed by shelving. Stacks upon stacks, rows upon ...

It is perplexing to me as to why I return occasionally to the ubiquitous Bic. I admire and despise it in equal degrees. I never carry one but it seems ...

Pencil souvenirs are really promotional pencils. They promote the venue that is inscribed on them and they promote the self-importance of one for having visited it. The venue says, "You've ...

If I am really on a "summer break" what is the Rhodia notebook doing near the glass of wine? Perhaps expecting to be written on during a drunken holiday stupor? ...

It's August. If, readers, you happen to be at work during this month of traditional holiday leave, then these drumstick pencils are for you. They may be used for your ...

Behind, in the window, sat an old Pen that the maid used to write with. There was nothing remarkable about it, except that it was too deeply immersed in ink; ...

Palimpsest wrote before about the metalpoint as used in the hands of artists and scribes. Here is a modern metalpoint that calls itself a "metal pen". The "point" of pen, ...

Paperchase is a big stationery store chain with its own range of notebooks, journals, address books, diaries, pens, pencils, folders and much more. Its three-floor flagship store in Tottenham Court ...

Photo by NASA The ruler of the universe picked up from the table a piece of paper and a stub of a pencil. He held one in one hand and the other ...

School has ended on 23rd July and my nine-year-old son has brought home his pencil case with its contents ravaged from a year of learning. Pencils with no leads, chewed ...

It would be difficult to find another man who lived so entirely for his duties. It is not enough to say that Akaky laboured with zeal: no, he laboured with ...

Travelling Ink case from the Writing Equipment London show, 2009 The time is approaching where I shall have to forsake the comforts of my desk for a campervan trip to some yet ...

There is something fascinating about the medieval discipline of writing - its rules, its implements. It is perhaps its indisposable nature that I admire. I admire it not because I ...

Preserved in museums, displayed in glass cabinets of historic homes, the writing instruments of famous personages have none other value intrinsic to them than the value endowed on them by ...

Jefferson's polygraph machine, 1804 Amy McDonald is Archives Assistant in Duke University Archives and author of Devil’s Tale, the blog of the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at ...

Gunter of the excellent Lexikaliker blog sent this spinning-top pencil to Palimpsest's Post a Stub series. This post has been first published on Lexikaliker under the title Drehmoment. Turning Point Today let ...