Fountain pen
Also known as: Füllfederhalter
Record status
Individual type · partial
Fountain pen is held by Archaeology and Museum Baselland. Museum description: The donor on the object: I write and work with school fountain pens, which is usually regarded as strange by other people.
I lose them every two to three months, and buy them again at Coop for Fr. 16.- or 17.- each time. Before I lose it again, I am handing it in. It served me as a writing instrument until half past seven this evening. Argument for preserving the object: One writes and thinks differently with such a tool than at a PC. The object was collected in 2001 as part of the participatory collecting project "Förderbar" for a "Museum of the Future".
The "Förderbar" - two containers equipped with a conveyor belt and bar - was stationed in Arlesheim, Sissach, and Basel during the jubilee year "Basel 2001" (500 years of Basel in the Swiss Confederation). Between 3 and 20 January 2001, the public could bring by objects that The museum record gives material recorded as plastic; ink; metal. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Kunststoff; Tinte; Metall
Identification
- Europeana id
- /2058611/_kimnet_cho_655febf6_fc32_4018_82c6_6862267abf48
- Museum object name
- Füllfederhalter
- Holding institution
- Archaeology and Museum Baselland
Catalogue references
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Research required
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