Vintage Pen News

A blog about antique and vintage writing instruments: fountain pens, mechanical (propelling) pencils, dip pens, and more.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Happy holiday weekend!

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It's Memorial Day Weekend here in the USA , so we'll be off until Tuesday. Summer is just about here, and we still have a big backl...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Chicago pen show this week

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Alas, we won't be at the Chicago pen show this year, for the first time in nearly 20 years (can it really be that long?!) thanks to a fa...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Seals for Waterman safeties and Conklin Nozacs

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We've been experimenting with substitutes for traditional seal materials for some time. In many cases, cork seals can be replaced with ...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Los Angeles show recap

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We got back from the LA pen show Tuesday night, totally exhausted. It was a good show this year, with lots of great pens on offer and consi...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Yet another snow day

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What a winter we've had! No sooner had all the ice begun to melt, than another snowstorm arrives. We shut down the office early today ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Through snow and ice . . .

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We stayed home yesterday after a rather messy snowstorm, followed by freezing rain. Everything was covered with ice this morning, but we...
Friday, January 23, 2009

New Pen Profile: Waterman overlay patterns

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It's still a work in progress, but I've just posted the beginnings of a Pen Profile covering the various Waterman overlay patterns ....
Thursday, January 8, 2009

It takes one to know one

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I've complained before about all the undisclosed flaws that one ends up finding after the fact -- not just with pens and pencils from f...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

2009: Slow Beginnings

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A belated Happy New Year to you all! It's been an unusually hectic holiday season here, in large part due to our recently-complete swit...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Email delays

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We get a lot of mail -- and an awful lot of spam. To help us cope with the deluge, we've been putting in some long-overdue upgrades, in...
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