Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,650 pages of information and 247,065 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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The Pen Museum, Birmingham.
The Pen Museum, Birmingham.


* [http://www.penroom.co.uk] The Pen Museum website.
Museum and Pen Trade Memorabilia.


* Museum and Pen Trade Memorabilia.
Contains fascinating displays of writing instruments, with particular emphasis on the huge variety of pen nibs produced locally, in the era when Birmingham dominated the world market for steel nibs.


* Contains fascinating displays of writing instruments, with particular emphasis on the huge variety of pen nibs produced locally, in the era when Birmingham dominated the world market for steel nibs.
Visitors may press steel nibs using old fly presses (under supervision!).
 
* Visitors may press steel nibs using old fly presses (under supervision!).


'''Nearby Attraction''' - [[Museum of the Jewellery Quarter]].
'''Nearby Attraction''' - [[Museum of the Jewellery Quarter]].
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== See Also ==
== See Also ==
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== Sources of Information ==
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* [http://www.penroom.co.uk The Pen Museum website]


[[Category: Things to do - Birmingham]]
[[Category: Things to do - Birmingham]]
[[Category: Museums and Collections]]
[[Category: Museums and Collections]]
[[Category: Pens, Pencils and Drawing Instruments]]
[[Category: Pens, Pencils and Drawing Instruments]]

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Pen knib display
Detail of pen nib display

The Pen Museum, Birmingham.

Museum and Pen Trade Memorabilia.

Contains fascinating displays of writing instruments, with particular emphasis on the huge variety of pen nibs produced locally, in the era when Birmingham dominated the world market for steel nibs.

Visitors may press steel nibs using old fly presses (under supervision!).

Nearby Attraction - Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.

See Also

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Sources of Information