Pens, Pencils, Brushes And Other Devices To Write Or Drawn

This January 23, 1985 twenty-two cent stamp of the USA commemorates the birth centenary of American composer Jerome Kern (1885-1945). Kern is shown working on a musical score with a pencil.

From wikipedia, "A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals in a career that lasted more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition."

Estonia
150 Years of Society of Estonian Literati
March 9, 2022
The design shows sketch of a right hand holding a feather quill pen.

On March 22, 1989 Papua New Guinea issued a four-stamp set commemorating International Letter Writing Week. The 20 toea value (Sc #707) of this set depicts a young boy writing a letter.

Here is the Czech Republic's January 20, 2022 twenty-two koruna stamp commemorating the 400th birth anniversary of French playwright, actor and poet Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), known by his stage name of Moliere.

This U.S. 32c commemorative (Sc #2975o) is from the June 29, 1995 Civil War sheet of 20 different designs. Stamp depicts South Carolinian Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886) writing in her Civil War diary using a dip pen. The diary was posthumously annotated and published on several occasions.

From wikipedia, "She described the war from within her upper-class circles of slaveowner society, but encompassed all classes in her book...Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982."

Luxembourg
March 15, 1011, three-stamp "Anniversaries" set
Scott #1310, 60c value
50th Anniversary of Amnesty International

Here is the "Keep in Touch!" stamp (Sc #2274) from the USA's April 20, 1987, ten-stamp, one-pane Special Occasions booklet of eight different 22c designs.

On November 6, 1984 Norfolk Island issued a four-stamp set commemorating the death centenary of Rev. George Hunn Nobbs (1799-1884). Rev. Nobbs was an English missionary who worked with Pitcairn Islanders there, and later when they evacuated to Norfolk Island. The 30c value (Sc #352) of the set shows Nobbs as a teacher.

This June 6, 1988 1.40 franc stamp (Sc #887) of Liechtenstein promotes adult education. A man is shown taking notes while receiving a lesson via a transistor radio.

This stamp is a joint issue with Costa Rica. That version of the stamp is shown on page 5 of this thread.

Here is the December 12, 1959 five sol airmail value (Sc #C161) from Peru's Personalities and Culture pictorial definitive series. Stamp depicts author Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616) who wrote Royal Commentaries on the Incas.

From wikipedia, "The Commentarios Reales de los Incas is a book written by Inca Gacilaso de la Vega, the first published mestizo writer of colonial Andean South America...(He) was a direct descendant of the royal Inca rulers of pre-Hispanic Peru."

An alert young student holding a pencil while studying is shown on this 35c + 15c value (Sc #B294) of Netherlands Antilles. Stamp is from the October 27, 1993 youth welfare souvenir sheet.

On October 17, 1991 the USA issued a 'Santa Claus' Christmas booklet of 20 stamps (5 designs: 5 panes of one block of 4 of each design). Value on each stamp (29c) is omitted. One of these stamps (Sc #2582) shows Santa checking his list of "who's naughty or nice".

This 45c stamp (Sc #1766) of Australia was issued on August 12, 1999 as part of a se-tenant block of 4 designs commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Stamp depicts an instructor holding chalk and her migrant students/workers holding pencils during an English class at Cooma.

The set was also issued in self-adhesive format.

From wikipedia, "The Snowy Mountains Scheme is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia. The Scheme consists of 16 major dams, 9 power stations, 2 pumping stations and 225 kms. of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts that were constructed between 1949 and 1974."

On September 20, 2010 Faroe Islands issued a four-value set commemorating Faroese linguist and songwriter Jens Christian Svabo. Three of the four values of this set, the 12, 14 and 22 krona stamps (Sc #s 541-3), depict quill pens.

From wikipedia, "Jens Christian Svabo (1746-1824) was a pioneering Faroese linguist, scholar and ethnographer...It is Svabo's work on the Faroese language and its tradition of oral folktales that has brought him the greatest attention."

Here is the 40p + 10p value (Sc #B3) from British Antarctic Territory's four-stamp "History of Antarctic Research" semi-postal set. Stamp depicts Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) "writing in his Antarctic Den".