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A Customer's Waterman 42 - Vintage Pens

Azizah, one of our customers, sent us these two pictures of her Waterman 42 Safety filler. She picked this 1930 vintage eyedropper in red ripple hard rubber out from our Catalog #74. Azizah loves m...

Pelikan Lizard & Red - Vintage Pens

Pelikan has recently relaunched their 101N series in Lizard, Red Tortoise, and Brown Tortoiseshell. They look very similar to their vintage counterparts and feel quite similar in terms of the size ...

Vintage Pens Esterbrook Travel Case

Continuing on the (now vintage pens!) Esterbrook trend! For the traveling sales person, Esterbrook had handy cases  with slots for various Esterbrook pens (such as the lovely pastels), along with s...

Esterbrook Renew-Points Storage - Vintage Pens

Now in the vintage pens category, Esterbrook's interchangeable nib system was so great because it offered users the ability to have just one or two pens, and a huge variety of nibs.  There were doz...

Esterbrook Point Selection Chart - Vintage Pens

Esterbrook was one of the largest fountain pen producers in the US, founded in 1858. They produced an inexpensive but remarkably high quality pen.  Walter Sheaffer used to challenge his new salesme...

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...