Vintage Pen News

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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...

Many years ago I acquired a group of prototype Waterman Hundred Year pens, all of first year design but most in colors that never made it in...

Inkwells are not a collecting focus for me, particularly those from the 20th century. When this one popped up on eBay, however, I made sure ...

   Back in the later 1990s I bought a collection of Waterman pens with emblems that had been assembled by Jim Krause, an eminent watch, cloc...