![]() The three stubs, short, medium and long, merely designate the three general sizes of straight-boded stub pens. ![]() Other shapes are differentiated by degrees of one characteristic or another. Some are smooth, others faceted or decorated in one way or another, but all share the same, basic shape. Pinched Spoon pens, as well, tend to have quite a range of shapes to the pinched transition section between heel and body. ![]() The most common shape, the Straight pen, can be found in variations such as the wide and shallow, the long and thin, the short and delicate, and others. Many of these shapes have various sub-types under them. These tend to be rather broad categories. The names come from either standard names used in the industry, my attempt at a descriptive name, or it is named after a standard pen that seem to exemplify this shape, such as the Inflexible or the Colorado. By the 1920’s the number of pen shapes generally made in the United States was greatly reduced.Īs part of my capturing an inventory of my collection of pens, I have gathered together a list of shapes and descriptions that are useful to me. After WWI, when manufacturers were required to reduce their product lines to only a few pens, even fewer different shapes were brought back after the war. Even that limited range of shapes was narrowed down by the turn of the century. Some names are explicitly given by manufacturers and seem to be standard, like the Falcon and the Shoulder pen, but most are not explicit and almost none are consistent.Īmerican pens also tended to come in fewer shapes than you find in Europe. There is no single source for “official” names for the various shapes. Give Tampa Cardiovascular Associates a call at 81. ![]() We found all of this very interesting especially as it is our mission to keep hearts in perfect shape at all ages. It is widely accepted as the link shape to the human heart despite the anatomical differences. The heart shape is used worldwide to represent love, emotion, and caring. At the beginning of the 1500s it flipped in images to the heart we see today point at the bottom. Interestingly, until the later 1400s the heart was usually shown upside down. This painting had a big impact on the use of the shape of the heart going forward in representing the human emotional range in visual form. The famous Italian painter Giotto did a painted depiction of charity in the Scrovengi Chapel in which a heart is given to Jesus. Medieval art also showed some heart like shapes in the early 1300s. But others question if that wasn’t just an upside-down pear… It showed up in a French romance called Roman de la Poire (Romance of the pear). ![]() The first depiction known was in the 1250’s. There is also speculation of it being modeled after human anatomy of the breasts or buttocks, as well as that of the water lily leaf or ivy. Because of this it was linked with sex and of course love. It was used as medicine, a flavoring spice, but more importantly as birth control. It was a species of giant fennel grown on the North African coastline near the Greek city of Cyrene. The heart shape we all recognize, and use originated back to an ancient plant known as the silphium. While beautiful in its intricacy in its own way the shape is rather jumbled and confusing and would not be easily drawn or jotted on a love note. The shape used is much more streamlined, simple, and frankly attractive than the lumpy fistful of muscle that is in our chests. It is metaphorical in link to the human heart, with the idea that love is a feeling expressed and felt within the heart. The conventional heart symbol is used to express the idea of love or adoration. So where did the Valentine’s day heart come from? T he muscular organ that runs our body in reality is not shaped much like the heart shape at all. If you didn’t study anatomy at all you might assume that the heart shape such that we use for Valentine’s Day cards was what was at the core of our being. ![]()
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