Handwriting


Vintage Pen – Crocker Pneumatic Filler

Vintage Pen – Crocker Pneumatic Filler This 1910 Crocker has an unusual filling system! It is a #3 pneumatic-filler in smooth BHR. The filling mechanism was designed for the user to put the bottom of the barrel into their mouth and blow so the air pressure collapsed the bladder. In later years they provided a rubber syringe to use instead of your mouth. Founded 1902 in Boston, made blow-fillers and a locking lever-filled located at the …

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Currently Inked – August 5, 2017

Currently Inked – August 5, 2017 Pilot Custom Heritage 92 – Broad – Caran d’Ache Caribbean Sea Visconti Opera Master – Double Broad – Montblanc Toffee Brown Omas Paragon – Triple Broad – Diamine SBREBrown Pelikan M1000 – Double Broad – Robert Oster Fire & Ice

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Currently Inked – June 3. 2017

Currently Inked – June 3. 2017 Ken Cavers Cigar – Fude – Robert Oster Fire & Ice Pelikan M400 – BB Stub – PW Akkerman Gele Oker Van Frans Parker 51 – Italic – Diamine Soft Mint Parker 65 – Italic – Diamine Soft Mint

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Currently Inked – May 27. 2017

Currently Inked – May 27. 2017 Visconti Homo Sapiens – EF – Caran d’Ache Caribbean Sea Visconti Opera Master – BB – Montblanc Toffee Brown Visconti Kakadu – B – Yard-o-Led Claret Visconti Opera Elements – M – Diamine Cerise Visconti Carbon Dream – OS – Montblanc Twilight Blue

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Currently Inked – May 20. 2017

Currently Inked – May 20. 2017 Parker Duofold Centennial – Italic – Montblanc Toffee Brown Stipula Etruria Volterra – 1.3 mm stub – Montblanc Toffee Brown Italix Parson’s Essential – Broad Italic – Diamine Claret Montblanc Moon Pearl – Music – Montblanc Dandy Turquoise Franklin-Christoph Model 66 – CI – Caran d’Ache Saffron

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Currently Inked – May 13. 2017

Currently Inked – May 13. 2017 Stipula Etruria Magnifica – F Ti – Caran d’Ache Saffron Aurora Optima – Italic – Diamine Wild Strawberry Ken Cavers Cigar – Fude – Blackstone Barrier Reef Blue

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Currently Inked – May 6. 2017

Currently Inked – May 6. 2017 Pelikan M1000 – BB – Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo Pelikan M800 – BBB – Sailor Apricot Sailor King of Pen – M – Pilot Iroshizuku Kosumosu Visconti Carbon Dream – OS – Diamine Deep Magenta Aurora Optima – Italic – Diamine Wild Strawberry Franklin-Christoph Model 66 – CI – KWZI Menthol Green Visconti Homo Sapiens – BB – Caran d’Ache Caribbean Sea Parker 65 – BB italic – Diamine Soft …

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Handwritten Post – Why Do You Write

There are so many reasons to use those pens! Why do you write? It doesn’t always have to be for a “good reason”. I practice by just scribbling notes during TV shows, for example.

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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 music nibs and she told us she just couldn’t miss this opportunity. She shared these two pictures with us; one of the pen itself, the other a writing sample – the nib is no big deal, she joked. Watch for a post on …

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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 an untold number of handwritten papers of many, many students. Pictured below are various stamps, designed with the intent to assist a teacher in correcting papers. The stamps have various corrections on them: Use more pushing motion Watch the down stroke …

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