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I really don’t have much to say about this image except that it is a very nicely designed thing, an advertisement for fountain pens produced by Germany’s leading pen manufacturer (Soennecken, established 1875), This full-page/front-page illustration appeared in Illustrirte Zeitung for 13 April 1911.
