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Mabie Todd Swan Trench Pen

This 1915 Mabie Todd Swan Trench Pen in #2 size (pen #178) is an eyedropper-filled pen in simple black chased hard rubber. When WWI started, soldiers were sent into battle and the pen industry fill...

Swan Safety Fountpens

Mabie, Todd. & Co. is a beloved vintage pen manufacturer, having made fine pens, and especially many very pleasant flexible nibs. Their Swan Safety fountain pens were made in a variety of finis...

Desk Sets

Not all vintage pens were made to be carried in a pocket or purse.  Desk pens are long, tapered pens normally held in a base, nib down, and of course are designed to sit on a desk. Many companies m...

Parker Vacumatics

The Parker Vacumatic are some of the most beautiful vintage pens because of their wonderful laminated and striated caps and barrels. They were launched in 1932 and were so popular they soon outsold...

Waterman Coin-Filler

Waterman has produced several filling mechanisms in addition to the lever-fillers and eyedroppers; for example, there was also the "coin filler." The coin filler operates with a prop: Waterman prov...

Dummy Pens

In addition to demonstrators/Ink-Vue fountain pens for showing customers how the inside of a fountain pen worked, Waterman also made Dummy Pens. They look like a regular Waterman at first glance, b...

Waterman #7 Pink Nib

Pen #20 is a 1921 Waterman in a beautiful Red Ripple. It's a #7 lever-filler with a "Pink" color-coded nib and matching band at the top of the cap. Waterman produced 10 nib "colors" for the #7 pen:...

Postal Reservoir Pen

The Postal Reservoir Pen could only be bought through mail order - there were no retail stores that carried it. The intent was to offer an affordable pen which performs as well as any higher priced...

Waterman Lady Patricia Sheraton

Here is a 1929 Lady Patricia LF set in gold-filled, in the very rare Sheraton/pinstriped pattern. For those of you that enjoy flexible nibs, this one could be for you. It has a fine flex nib, is ne...

On Point - The Parker Duofold

The Parker Duofold is "unecessarily good." Parker was so certain of their Duofolds that they advertised, "Not one can fail, or we'll make it good free!"  The nibs were advertised as "ultra-smooth, ...