Once the words received the royal thumbs up, an anonymous and highly discreet calligrapher was finally allowed to inscribe the text in special ink onto the vellum.

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Their first ink formula used a special enzyme to adhere ink to cotton.

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George Lucas owns 6 oils and 14 pencil and pen-and-ink drawings, some purchased under special circumstances.

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With so much red ink still to be spilled, it may seem premature to ask, as this special report does, what the future of banking looks like.

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