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One never knows what might be lurking on a table at a pen show. This unprepossessing black hard rubber pen caught my eye with its unusual...

As prior research has shown, until well into the 20th century almost all American fountain pen manufacturers bought their nibs from speciali...

This figural magic pencil I hadn't seen before. It's a Fairchild in the shape of a rimfire round, gold filled with a silver ...

The number of companies that made pens was considerably smaller than the number of companies that sold them. Many pen retailers did n...

The above passage is to be found in the July 1919 issue of Parkergrams , a Parker publication for dealers. By all evidence, this was ...

Totally mint pens from the 1920s don't turn up often, and it is a certainty that as time passes we will be seeing far fewer. So when ...

At the most recent Madrid pen show Duncan Sewell was selling reprints of a most interesting British government publication. Titled simp...

When buying pens online, most buyers know to be wary of items coming from certain countries known as hotbeds of counterfeiting and scammery....

Many reproductions aren't made to deceive. Nonetheless, as time goes by and they acquire a bit of wear and age, they can end up mistaken...

Many pen collectors also collect pen-related material, such as point of sale displays and advertising. For the most part, the market for suc...