A metal nib with a slit down its center, set into a holder and dipped in ink for each fresh line, the nib itself doing the work a fountain pen's reservoir later took over. Calligraphers still choose dip pens for the range of line width one nib can produce, and for the ease of swapping nibs mid piece. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced When (Circa)Metal dip pens have existed since antiquity; pens with mass-produced replaceable nibs emerged in the early nineteenth century 1 OriginA copper nib found at Pompeii is dated to AD 79; metal pens are also documented at Vindolanda and through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, well before the mass-produced steel nib of the nineteenth century. 1 Introduced era (class) Connections
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1. Dip Pen (Wikipedia)
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History section
While metal dip pens have existed since antiquity, pens with mass-produced replaceable nibs emerged in the early 19th century.
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Alternate Names section
not necessarily dipped; many illustrators call them nib pens
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