Vintage Pen News

The Parker Duofold Senior shown above has several unusual features, all of which would seem to be old and original. Capped, the pen appea...

The early history of writing instrument manufacture in America is still a wide open field. Though a few dedicated collector-researchers h...

The Fairchild combination dip pen and pencil shown above recently came to us from the wild. The seller described it as a pencil and was...

Experienced Waterman collectors have long been familiar with the giant mottled hard rubber straight-cap illustrated in Fischler and Schne...

Repair supplies are now available for nearly all vintage pen models. Perhaps the most prominent exception is accordion or bellows sacs: conv...

  Not long ago I acquired a nice Wirt dropper-filler -- a classic slender black chased hard rubber overfeed straight-cap, with 1882 and...

Back in the day, pen repairmen would usually apply a little shellac to a slip-fit section before reinserting it into the barrel. I do the sa...

Reader Robert P. Foster recently sent us photos of an unusual nib in his collection, suggesting that it would make an interesting topic...

Sometimes major discoveries turn up right under our noses. In a recent instance, I was putting together ordinary Eversharp Skylines fo...

Previous posts in this series: Part 1: retailer shoppers vs traders ;  Part 2: the Generation Gap ;  Part 3: meet the older collectors . T...