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Letter from the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Direct letter to Chur
Postal Horn
Letter to the rectors of the Council of Ten
Letter from the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Letter franked with Penny Black
The real guide for travelers
Letter from the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Health Association of Health of Bergamo
Four in Hand
Writing set
US postal balance
IBM rotating heads for electronic typewriter
Olivetti personal computer
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Writing set

Anonymous

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Museum of Tasso and Postal History

Museum of Tasso and Postal History

Via Cornello, 22, Camerata Cornello

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The object of the image is a nineteenth-century writing set. You can recognize the inkwell, to support the quill, the cylinders that housed the ink and the container for the absorbent powder. The goose quills represented the writing tool par excellence in the Middle Ages. They were made from the plumage of birds such as geese and swans. Before being used they had to be worked on. The process involved cleaning the beards, a first oblique cut with a subsequent temperature (through immersion in hot sand) of the pen to degrease it and make it more resistant. The pen was then finished to define an opening of at least 2 cm, a sort of internal chamber. Finally, the beak was trimmed to make the tip according to the type of writing. There were also other writing tools besides the quill, such as the silver mine or the lead stylus, the latter used for the initial drawing on the parchment.
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Title: Writing set

Author: Anonymous

Date: nineteenth century

Technique: Brass

Displayed in: Museum of Tasso and Postal History

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