Vintage Pen News

Popular recommendations can lead you astray. One example is the use of toothpaste to polish pens, and especially nibs and metal trim. Expert...

This unprepossessing Cross stylograph arrived along with a group of early Cross nibbed fountain pens -- the centerpieces of the lot. Upon cl...

As more fountain pen enthusiasts venture into the world of vintage pens, the question often arises -- what inks are safe? We've had a di...

One thing new collectors soon learn about Parker Duofolds -- Senior and Junior sizes, in particular -- is that a large number are now fou...

It's now been several years since I posted on a mysterious group of early 20th-century American-made pens with Greek imprints . Not h...

While putting my reference shelves in order, I spent a little time browsing through this 1943 Spors catalog. Spors is best known to Amer...

It's long been clear that many pens and pencils were not actually manufactured by the companies that sold them. The majority of so...

This was going to be a more extensive writeup, but I managed to delete most of what I had written while trying to add photos via my phone. T...

Quite a few penmakers offered stylographic versions of their standard fountain pens. Such pens tend to be uncommon, since nibbed pens wer...

I am not a fan of the fashion among many pen collectors of using china markers or the like to highlight imprints. In the vast majority of...