[3 Piet Zwart artworks for a Bruynzeel Fineerfabriek blotter] bigkenji Heinrichsen got a teaching post

Heinrichsen got a teaching post in Hannover

And now you can get it from us

No two arrangements are alike

but this is truly a magnificent collection

(Elizabeth Wyatt)

[3 Piet Zwart artworks for a Bruynzeel Fineerfabriek blotter] bigkenji Heinrichsen got a teaching postBefore the ballpoint pen was popularized in the 1950s, people wrote with fountain pens or dip pens. Because fountain pen ink of that era could be slow to dry and highly prone to smudging, people who wrote things often kept small, loose sheets of highly absorbent, unsized paper close at hand. Whenever one finished writing a letter, filling out an invoice, or signing a check, one would gently press this small card over the wet ink to soak up the excess