I am often given a pen or pencil by a conference centre or hotel or restaurant. Here are some questions and answers regarding pens, as travellers are all experts and enthusiasts.
1 Are there any pen museums? Yes. Birmingham Pen Museum, England.
UK Pen Museum
2 Or sections of museums on pens,
3 or founders of pen companies?
These include
Biro
Waterman
4 Are there any display cases for pens or ways or displaying them or sorting them tidily?
The Museum has the funds and space to install a display cabinet with pens laid out flat at waist height under an A-shape glass top.
On Amazon you will see lots of ways of storing pens so that each one is visible and accessible. You can buy or make your own container.
1 Hide expensive pens or travel with them in zip up containers.
2 Art shops sell roll up pouches for pencils and brushes, sometimes for pencil shapes only, sometimes with bands of elastic, or cyclinder shape holes which are wider for rubbers (which are called erasers by Americans) and pencil sharpeners. These containers protect the tips, store items neatly, and stop them poking holes in pockets, or rolling out and getting lost.
I have thimbles and spoons in display cases, but my increasing numbers of coloured biro type pens and souvenir pencils and pens wwith animal heads and shapes need to be displayed.
3 Store in one large beaker. I also tried putting pens in one beaker and pencils in another.
4 Use a multi-cylinder display. You can buy these in a plastic desk tidy device. Or make one using the insides of toilet rolls. Cover with pens or pen caps.
5 Use a vase with a flower display insert which has a series of concentric holes.
Make something similar with holes for each pen to be displayed vertically. For example, make one from a biscuit tin. Put holes in the lid or the base.
6 Make a horizontal tray with grooves, like corrugated paper, for each pen to be displayed horizontally.
7 Put a series of hooks in a pin board. Each pen can be held horizontally by two hooks, or vertically with a loop from an elastic band.
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National Handwriting day is January 23rd. I have been helping my four-year old grand-daughter to draw and write. She loves colouring. She was holding the pencils and felt tip pens grasped between her thumb and other fingers in the web base of the V shape gap. I showed her how to hold the tip of the pen or pencil between the tip of her thumb and first finger for better control. (That is also how you hold a chopstick pair.)
In American there is a trade association for manufacturers of pencils. Their website talks about safety standards. Safety? Yes, Think of lead pencils being sucked. White paints and paint components on hands, from splashing paints, face painting, and making hand prints. Yes, so safety is important from the point of view of both manufacturer and consumer, teacher and parent, writer and artist.
UK Pencil Museum
In the Lake District, England. Kendal. Pencil Museum. Great for adults and children.
German Pencil Museum
Factory Tour and Museum, Faber-Castell, Stein, near Nuremburg, Germany.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen
https://www.derwentart.com/en-gb/c/about/company/derwent-pencil-museum
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