Vintage Pen News

  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...