The quill was consigned for sale by a private collector, who had owned it since 2005, with auction house Christie's, of London and went for £10,000. The goose quill pen even has ink stains to its nib ...

I’m not going to lie, I don’t really need to know how to cut and make a quill pen from a goose feather. No one does anymore. But! I was completely fascinated by the process of it. It’s funny ...

Arts Mother Goose For more than 20 years, quill-pen-maker Nancy Floyd has kept the Supreme Court in fine feathers.

Description The Copp family used these quill pens in their home in Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. Quill pens were generally made from the five outer feathers of a goose or ...

The story was written more than 140 years ago with a sharpened goose quill on paper made from linen and cotton rag paper. It tells, with heavy-handed moralising and amazing coincidences, of the ...

This steel lock and key were salvaged from the cell where Thoreau spent a night in jail for tax resistance in 1846. Concord Museum One of Thoreau’s goose quill pens, with a note from his sister ...