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Vintage Waterman Color Coded Pens

What nib do you use? Just one? Or many? Vintage Waterman pens offered "color coded pens" that were matched to specific nibs. The Black model 94, 7, and 5 had color coded disks inserted into the bot...

Medium Oblique Italic - That's a Mouthful

Or a handful! The Pelikan Pen Company is reducing their range of nibs. Double-broads and obliques are already difficult to acquire. Pen #238 below is available in our Catalog #74 - a 1955 Pelika...

More Coin-Fillers

We have previously posted about Waterman's Coin-Filler fountain pens. In 1908, Waterman released the self-filling pen, but by 1913, the sleeve-filler was improved and The Coin-Filler was launched u...

Your First Fountain Pen

You have your first modern or vintage pen, but you have no idea what to do with it. Many of us have been there, if we didn't have a fellow fountain pen-connoisseur to take us under their wing. Here...

Waterman Vintage Pen 1884 Patent

Filed only several months after the eye dropper patent (No. 293.545), L. E. Waterman filed a patent for the Waterman fountain pen. Our gratitude again to James Hart for providing this patent ima...

Waterman Eyedropper Vintage Pen Patent

From the US National Archives, a copy of the L. E. Waterman patent from 1884 for the eye dropper pen. How interesting to see the early start of Waterman on record! Thank you to James Hart for pr...

Waterman Rippled Rubber Vintage Pens

Waterman produced some beautiful rippled ebonite (hard rubber) vintage fountain pens around 1920 to 1930. Red ripple is not particularly uncommon, but the red ripple with nickel trim is much more r...

Changing Colors

Actually, they only changed the names. I know quite a few people who were disappointed in Waterman changing the names of their classic inks. My favorite names were Florida Blue, Havana Brown, and S...

Waterman Safety Pen - Vintage Pens

The Waterman eyedropper-fill safety pens were produced around 1905 to 1935. Safety pens have nibs that can be extended and retracted by turning a knob at the bottom of the pen's barrel. These vi...

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...