Inks & Pens
Joseph Gillott
Gillott's Tit Quill Pen Nibs
Ultra-fine steel dip pen nibs originally manufactured by Joseph Gillott's of Birmingham, England, a firm that pioneered machine-made steel pen nibs starting in the 1830s. The Tit Quill was marketed as an "Extra Superfine Drawing Point" capable of strokes in any direction. It was the preferred drawing nib of illustrator Edward Gorey. The Tit Quill has been out of production for roughly a century and is now only found as vintage stock.
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Primary drawing nib throughout his career; stockpiled them after they went out of production in the 1980s, then reluctantly switched to Hunt #104 nibs
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