HISTORIC PENS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 243, 19 January 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

HISTORIC PENS.

ONE WOl? TH OVI'TR W>o. The time. will come when tho peace troatv of (lie Thousand Days " ar will he suited, and of all tho. luster..- pons which have sinned famous tivatie.s the m whir h inscribes tho simv.ituros on this "scrap of paper" wfi? be tho most valuable- . i Tho collating of historic pens has I>ooii fjuit. 1 .1 fad tor sonic years past. Tho pens -.villi whuh peace treaties at si,ri;c-l Ih itm tin- behest J>'-'c-es if tho> j, : 11>p uto find th mi- way into the market. and there, are ni-.nv enthusiastic ,-ioix who have paid hundreds o pound, for p. ns which have bren used i u lii-t'-ri'- occasions. 'i i-< to know that when : t public property that peace j,,,, proclaimed between Kussi:. *lllll .l:ip;ili pen manufac■hirers in nil (,| the ivor'd s.vnt supplies ot tVir ; cn> to those onjzaeod in drawm!i „p Mie treat v. ISeins inundated with ~n . . j.nlcu- > \i-twoon <!?.« pen makers.

tho st.itesir.cn who signed rlie treaty decided to use quills*. It was a quill which v/.is ir-csl m signing the tr.wtv of ponco ho-tivtcn the I nit d Slates and Spain after the war of W.'S. It was afterwards sold for L'2<. 'I'll.? o\-Einprr-s Kujienio treasures a pen made from a <|iii!l of a noldv.li cables' wins and richly mounted in di Pnionds and gold. which was used by tho fourteen plenipotentiaries in sip;niu<_r tho memorable 1 r.■ at v ol Paris in I^>2. A valuable pen is the one which Lincoln presented to a friend just before his don til. It- was made from a portion of ;i linx which l>. % .lon<iod to \\ while the box i'.-olf bad W n nr.de from the lid of the desk l.e:on"in" to the captain of the JliJflower The owner, an American, recently retired an offer of £3*o fot tins historic pen.