By the 1830s, "steel dip pens" (a predecessor to the fountain pen) were mass produced (mostly in Birmingham), and were standard in business.
https://mansionmusings.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/quills-and-steel-using-pens-to-interpret-the-past/
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