Vintage Pen News

The day will come when all of the old jewelry and stationery trade journals are available online. At present, however, availability is patch...

I've posted on Waterman's early clips here and here , and at the time had not found any mention of the Clip-Cap prior to July 19...

As soon as I put up the pictures of my Heath clutch pencils , a colleague wrote to ask about the one at the bottom -- in particular, the ...

Up until recently, the answer would have seemed straightforward: Charles R. Keeran invented the Eversharp; the design must have been his. ...

Starting with the earliest Waterman advertisements , supplying your own nib was repeatedly promoted as an customer option. As the ad above...

This stylo bears an imprint for Louis E. Dunlap's US patent of November 18, 1884, number 308,144 . Dunlap had been the manager of Live...

Jewel-tipped nibs are rare, so this Mordan pen and pencil combination is something special. It is fully hallmarked for 1832/33, with make...

This is a Waverley nib. Its complex shape is best appreciated in a side view, which shows the necked collar, the three ridges, the up-d...

Is there a collector who doesn't long for a time machine when looking at old catalogs? Some now-iconic rarities were expensive luxuries ...

After an absence of too many years, I was back in Europe last week for the Hamburg and London pen shows. Travel is broadening when it come...