The commemorative volume 'Vom Werden unserer Schrift' was published by the firm Brause & Co. on its 100th anniversary and presented to friends and supporters of the house. On around 50 pages the history of writing from antiquity to the then-present of 1950 is described in detail, supplemented by numerous writing epochs and writing styles. A short company history and a report on the emergence and production of the fountain pen are no less missing than a self-critical look at contemporary technology: the board muses that the mechanics and handling of the models of that time already seem old-fashioned and that the fountain pens of 1950 might in a few years be regarded similarly disparagingly — without foreseeing the long-term collector value of these pieces.