Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,499 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Pen Room

From Graces Guide
Pen knib display
Detail of pen nib display
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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.

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