Vintage Pen News

Although this entry is primarily about William E. Wiley, it also bears upon our ongoing research into the behind-the-scenes activities of Si...

At the Washington, DC pen show this year I was fortunate to be able to acquire two rather esoteric bits of fountain pen history. Both former...

We know where Isaac Pitman's personal pen is; but what about these pens, noted in the American Stationer of 1909?   Dickens is as ...

How did I miss this, back in 2004? The gold-nibbed pen used by shorthand pioneer Sir Isaac Pitman has been sold at auction in Bath for mor...

From top to bottom: a gold filled "Pigmy" (lengthy discussion of the model here ; often misspelled "Pygmy", rare in an...

Pen makers proudly advertised the medals they had won at industrial fairs and international expositions. Waterman was awarded numerous med...

We're on our way back from this year's DC pen show. Once again, it was a big show and very active, the major emphasis on new pens, b...

Recent posts have made passing mention of the precursor to the iridium-tipped gold nib. Here is an example of one of these rare jewel-tipp...

By the second half of the 19th century, accounts of the origin of the iridium-tipped gold nib were already getting confused and contradicto...

Sorting through a parts box a few weeks ago, I came across an old friend -- a large black European button-filler that I found sometime in ...