Vintage Pen News

Ever regretted selling a pen? This is one I would love to have back. It's a fully marked English-made Esterbrook Relief button-filler...

Browsing in old fountain pen catalogs, one often runs across items that just don't seem to turn up in real life.  The leather pen carrie...

When pen collectors hear "date code", they think of Parker. Other pen companies used date codes later on, but as far as I know, ...

The cap on this Wirt slip-cap eyedropper nicely illustrates how such caps were made, as discussed here and here . Before vulcanization, ...

More discoveries from the parts storehouse. The ringtop is unmarked, and appears never to have been completed, as neither lever nor press...

Posting here has been slow lately, and it's not entirely due to the much-welcomed arrival of spring here in New England. Much of our tim...

Over at the Fountain Pen Network there is a discussion of OMAS pens with solid 18K gold nibs and no hard tipping material whatsoever. The p...

We recently discussed the manufacture of hard rubber taper caps , and specifically how they were made by wrapping raw rubber around ...

The LT & Son mark is typically found on all-metal combos and pencils, and has confused pen collectors for as long as I've been col...

  It can be difficult to understand the inner workings of something without cutting it open, and pens are no exception. But sometimes one ...