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Laughlin is not one of the better-known American pen manufacturers, though they came up with some unusual and innovative designs -- not so m...

This ad is from a 1910 issue of The Bookseller & Stationer, a Canadian trade periodical. It nicely illustrates how stationery stores wo...

This large gold filled pencil recently came in with the front end detached. I really shouldn't keep buying projects, but this seemed bot...

At the California pen show Chris Odgers came up to me to share a recent discovery: a sterling silver flat pencil holder with American Indian...

This site is my usual location for sharing new information, but in some cases it is more appropriate to add it to the vintagepens.com websi...

This Mabie Todd Leverless was made in England in the 1930s. All the external metal is 14k gold, which one would expect to be largely immune ...

  The black streamlined Duofold Senior shown above came my way at the recent Chicago pen show. With complete lack of foresight I cleaned the...

The Congregationalist , 8 Sep 1906, p. 321 In was in the first decade of the 20th century that the self-filling fountain pen came into its o...

For over 35 years Waterman collectors have puzzled over an extraordinarily rare model typically described as a slip-cap safety pen, with an ...

For quite a few years now pen collectors have been trying to determine why latex rubber ink sacs fail -- and in particular, why they sometim...