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Drawing tools from the pre-digital area, with drawings and photographs of now all-but-obsolete instruments.
http://www.daube.ch/docu/glossary/drawingtools.html

Two short articles dealing with the history and collection of drawing rules.
http://www.antiquetools.co.uk/rule.html

Information about inkstands and inkwells, with anatomy, terminology, history and photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries.
http://pages.cthome.net/allswell

Series of articles tracing the history of writing from cave paintings to ball-point pens, and some additional pencil and eraser trivia.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpen.htm

A Yahoo!Group for those wishing to discuss repair and maintenance issues of pens and pencils.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/penrepairs/

Yahoo! Group for discussing the hobby of vintage pen and pencil collecting.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pensandpencils/

Yahoo! Group for collectors and users of drafting and drawing instruments.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DrawingInstruments/

Opening to the public in 2003, the museum exhibits materials, equipment, and examples of writing from prehistory to the present.
http://www.museumofwriting.co.uk/

Pictures, descriptions, and valuations of institutional inkwells for dipless pens.
http://www.geocities.com/dougienet/inkwell.htm