Vintage Pen News

One of the most amusingly prescient articles in the American Stationer ran on September 24, 1896 (p. 517) . It begins: If it should ever ...

As the megapixel count of cameras goes up and up, with even the cheapest camera phones cranking out multi-megabyte images, it is more import...

No, we're not at the Philadelphia pen show this weekend. Too many conflicts with family events this year, so we will be staying home. Th...

Many fountain pen manufacturers (and manufacturing subcontractors) did not vulcanize their own hard rubber. Those that did, however, had a c...

This week, George Rimakis and Daniel Kirchheimer have published a real blockbuster concerning the very beginnings of Lewis Edson Waterman...

We are starting out the new year with some long overdue upgrades to our shopping cart gateway. If you are paying for orders with Paypal or b...

Not long ago, online research resources allowed us to pin down the story of how Waterman's legendary Prohibition Pen came to be. And n...

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 ...