Vintage Pen News

A blog about antique and vintage writing instruments: fountain pens, mechanical (propelling) pencils, dip pens, and more.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Waterman Father Time

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  Waterman collectors have known for years about a very rare version of the 58 with an extra-long cap with a small rectangular watch set i...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Tracking the rise of the self-filling fountain pen

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Google's Ngram Viewer is a powerful tool for evaluating the popularity of words and phrases over time. Here are the results for " ...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Waterman "Gentleman's Set"

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Belatedly digging through newly-digitized volumes of The American Stationer , I came across this fantastic item -- a specially-packaged set ...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Yet more American Stationer issues digitized

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Mike Kennedy just informed me that volume 47 of The American Stationer is now viewable online. Looking more closely, I realized that severa...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Geyer's Stationer list update

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Mike Kennedy recently brought to my attention two volumes of Geyer's Stationer not listed in our directory of issues available online :...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

The introduction of Waterman's "Spoon Feed"

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Waterman's original feed was narrow, just wide enough to carry the grooved ink channel. It was protected by US patent 293545 , issued...

Miscellaneous Waterman notes from The American Stationer, 1900-1901

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The newly-digitized  volumes of The American Stationer , covering mid-1900 to the end of 1901, are of particular interest for the history of...

More American Stationer issues now available online

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The availability of digitized copies of The American Stationer has revolutionized writing history research over the past several years; I c...
Monday, July 31, 2017

The extraction of lever-filler pressure bars

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While most pen repair techniques have been given at least basic treatment online or in print, there is still next to nothing publicly availa...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

1942 time capsule

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Every now and then one runs across a hoard of new old stock pens, packed away decades ago. Sometimes they belonged to a salesman or a distri...
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