Gifts and pens

Did you exchange gifts during Christmas and New Years Eve? If yes, which is your favorite gift? Please vote for your favorite gift you gave and the favorite gift you received.
A nice idea for gift, especially when we talk about company gifts, gifts to colleagues, to family members or even to ourselves is personalized pens.
Not just another pen among too many pens as gifts but, personalized pens.
And speaking of pens a bit of statistics: According to statistics put forth by the U.S.Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 2005, retractable ball point pens were the most popular writing utensil with 26%. Standard ball point pens took second with 14%. There is no doubt that the pen is an extremely important part of modern day society.
And a little bit of history of pens.
The pen has had an important role in the past as well, with a history dating back to the Egyptians.
Around 3000 BC, scribes from ancient Egypt were the first people to write on paper. Back then, reed brushes were used to write on papyrus scrolls. The reed pen was used for awhile, but slowly began to be replaced around the 7th century by the quill pen. This is the type of pen that was used to write the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was introduced to Europe in 700 AD, and stayed in use for a long time. The constitution of the United States was signed using a quill pen in 1787!
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