Collections (46 total)

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Appleton Collection

Hebrew is one of the longest continuously recorded languages that has survived to the modern day. It first appeared around the late 11th or early 10th…

Hebraica (eBay seller), Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

A ballpoint pen is a pen that dispenses ink over a metal ball at its point. The metal commonly used is steel, brass or tungsten carbide. It was…

The Berkshire Aircraft Museum., Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

My favourite writing instrument. It is so flexible and, if cut properly, can be more adaptable to one's writing style than any modern fountain pen. …

Davies Antiques, Jane Stewart, Grays Antiques, Various eBay sellers, Alan |E. |Cole, MOWRC

The first items for the collection were a Parker51 fountain pen that I purchased with my first salary, the manuscript repaired with earlier ones and a…

Lady Augusta Herbert, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

The first items for the collection were a Parker51 fountain pen that I purchased with my first salary, the manuscript repaired with earlier ones and a…

Lady Augusta Herbert, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

The first items for the collection were a Parker51 fountain pen that I purchased with my first salary, the manuscript repaired with earlier ones and a…

Lady Augusta Herbert, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

Aramaic is a family of languages or dialects, belonging to the Semitic family. More specifically, it is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily,…

Davies Antiques, PattysPreciousPicks (eBay seller), Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

The Arabic script is a writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa. Even until the 16th century, it was used to write some…

M. Ayers, Davies Antiques., Many forgotten eBay Sellers, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

The majority of the boxed nibs in the collection were gifted by Philip Poole and supplemented by my own meagre items.

Philip Poole, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

In the People's Republic of China, Mongolian is a co-official language with Mandarin Chinese in some regions, notably the entire Inner Mongolia…

M. Ayers, Mongolian Antiques (eBay), Oldrahu (eBay), Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

The Burmese or Myanmar script is a Brahmi-style syllabic alphabet, most likely adopted from the Mon script in the 12th century AD. The script is an…

Alan E. Cole, \MORC

Toba people (also referred to as Batak Toba people or often simply "Batak") are the most numerous of the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, and…

Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

Another civilisation that I feel close to. My great uncle was a missionary in China and Tibet, I knew Gladys Aylward who wrote 'The Little Woman',…

William Ramsay, Gladys Aylward, Various eBay stores, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

According to Buddhist tradition, Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha) lived and taught in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the 6th…

Davies Antiques, Mongolian antiques (eBay), Oldrahu (eBay), Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

Another intriguing script, the Indus or Harappan script is an undeciphered Bronze Age writing system In the Mature Harappan period, from about 2600…

Jewellery world - eBay, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

Apart from the Isthmian script, the Mayan script, which resembles Isthmian, is the only Mesoamerican writing system outside Mexico and is presently…

Edgar Owen, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria, and…

James Ede, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC

I first met the late and great Philip Poole when I visited his shop in Drury Lane during my lunchtime in the early 1960s. Philip Poole was known…

Philip Poole, Alan E. Cole/MOW, MOWRC

The first items for the collection were a Parker51 fountain pen that I purchased with my first salary, the manuscript repaired with earlier ones and a…

Lady Augusta Herbert, Beatrice May Bishop, Alan E. Cole, MOWRC