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1 year ago    |   Tags: pens writing   |   Notes: 1

Swann Announces Vintage Writing Instruments Dept

In February, Swann Auction Galleries announced plans for their latest department, “one that celebrates the objects that have written our story”: Fine and Vintage Writing Instruments. Auctions will be held from September 2012 onward, under the direction of Rick Propas, proprietor of The PENguin. 

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1 year ago    |   Tags: Fyodor Dostoyevsky lit writing authors books   |   Notes: 294
tatteredcover: A room where great works were born aperfectcommotion: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s study in St Petersburg.

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A room where great works were born aperfectcommotion:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s study in St Petersburg.

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