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The Vacation Necessity - Waterman Vintage Pen Ad

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="658"] Ad by Coles Phillips for Waterman's Pens June, 1912 issue of EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE. Artist: Coles Phillips Source: Mariangela Buch Image Restora...

Get A Point To Suit Your Own Handwriting - Waterman Vintage Pens

Apart from being one of the most popular brands in the history of vintage pens, Waterman really nailed it with their nibs - or points! I enjoy a few things about these ads: the obvious popularity o...

Vintage Gorham Postal Scale

Although this isn't a fountain pen, it does surround the culture of writing. The Gorham Postal Scale was used to weigh letters, books, newspapers and other small parcels to calculate the amount of ...

Catalog #74 Vintage Pens

[caption id="attachment_411" align="alignnone" width="587"] One of the highlights of Catalog #74 is the Parker 38, gold-filled "Snake" pen, in near mint+ condition>[/caption] The March 2015 C...

Celluloid Disease on Vintage Pens

Celluloid is, unbeknownst to many, a type of plastic. It's a class of compounds created from cellulose nitrate and camphor. Celluloid was used frequently as the material for vintage pen caps and ba...

Vintage Pens - The Pen For Roughing It

Waterman came up with some pretty good lines for their Ideal fountain pens - this time, that they worked both on land and sea because they didn't get seasick! Of course, that doesn't mean the user ...

Waterman's Perfect Simplicity Vintage Pens

The simplicity of an eyedropper is one of the reasons to love it. The less parts there are, the less there is to break. One of our customers loves eyedroppers because of how easy it is to disassemb...

Vintage Stamps For Handwriting Lessons

At first glance, one probably has no clue what this could be! In the good days, when handwriting and cursive was taught in elementary schools, an individual teacher would have to grade and correct ...

Crocker Hatchet-Filler Vintage Pen

This 1917 Crocker fountain pen (#263) uses the unusual "hatchet-filler" mechanism. Crocker was founded in the late 1890s by Seth Crocker, who then went on to start the Chilton Pen Company. This is ...

The Universal Gift - Vintage Pens

What could the universal gift be? Ask any fountain pen lover, and they'll probably say a fountain pen. Waterman's Ideal fountain pen was a gift for everyone in the family, except the baby. This is ...