What exactly is an accountant nib
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I wondered about this too a while back and as far as my research went I concluded with a fine nib to extra fine nib and generally in a good quality pen with reliable ink flow. The ones I took a look at were gold nibs and for all pratical purposes, they should be good writers too.
To the question in general: an accounting or posting nib traditionally combines a fine or extra-fine tip with a very stiff nib body. The term comes from it being used in accounting, the purpose to write small and legibly in ledger books. The small size of the tip is obvious for the tiny annotations to be made, and the purpose of having a stiff nib is that so it won't flex and widen out the line being put on the paper. A stiff nib can usually be used to write faster with.
To Jar: being that the PFM nibs weren't stamped (except for the light mark on the backside that rubs off), how would one know when you had an example of an Accountant point?
It's interesting to see they made specific accountant and reporter nibs, maybe it was jobs and educations giving a bit of extra attention at the time. I would guess equivalent nibs could be called EF firm, even EEF firm and Medium Fine Firm? Quite a good selection of tip sizes. From jars picture, it just now dawns on me, that Medium Fine, is not the same as Fine. I have noticed the same with Pelikan nibs, loads of variant have been made at one point, but except from the basic EF, F, M and B, the rest aren't very common.
Made me think of the Esterbrook Bank #14, which is a very fine point, but it does not hold as much ink in reserve as the Falcon of others, but no reason they should.
Then there're the Pelikan Durchschreib nibs.
For example, Esterbrook (see the first two nibs on this old chart):
http://www.esterbrook.net/images/ephemera/bback.jpg
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Also made me think of the Esterbrook 9450 "Extra Firm Posting" nibs and the vintage Pelikan DEF manifold extra fine nibs.[/QUOTE]
Read this fast and it registered as "Poisoning" rather than posting...
How much does an accountant charge in the UK? as am looking for a accountant in London.
Odd that someone would turn to a forum on Sheaffer fountain pens to find a British chartered accountant. Should we expect incoming spam, instead?
This was truly a fascinating subject and I kinda concur with what you have specified here
For example, on a Waterman 32V:
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