I’ve been working on a matchbox book with a calligraphy (or handwriting) theme, and think I’ll include a pen nib in the box. I bought a box of nibs marked “new old stock” from Ebay, hoping they would spur me on. They arrived on Saturday in, what I thought, was a nice old box, appropriately the size of matchbox.
Then on Sunday I saw the most recent post on letterology, entitled “20th C Italian Pen Nib Packaging,” and my box now looks very plain indeed. Here’s a couple of the Italian boxes, and you can see many more here.
