Vintage Pen News

It's not every day you see an early 20th-century taper-cap with a glass barrel. A patent application for this design was filed on Octobe...

One of the items in a recent eBay lot was the twist-pattern dip pen shown above. When it arrived, my initial reaction was disappointment:...

This Parker Vacumatic set came to us from an old collection, assembled in the old days when vintage pens could be found in the wild in such ...

There are not a lot of surviving medieval writing instruments, so this bronze-nibbed pen excavated last year at Caherconnell in County Clare...

  Big pens may be the most highly valued, but there's much to be said for their slightly smaller stubby siblings. The full-length Senior...

Unfinished nibs don't turn up that often. This one is a 1940s Waterman nib for a Taperite, which has been shaped, imprinted, and tipped,...

The grading of vintage pens has been a topic of discussion for not just years, but decades. I've been meaning to post on this for nearly...

Japanese Jumbo pens were produced from the 1930s up through the 1950s. Although some were made to a very high standard with carefully applie...

The Onoto tool is a clever device that is not widely known in the pen repair community, especially outside of the UK. Its main purpose is to...

Mabie Todd was an early entrant into the fountain pen market, but a little slower off the mark when it came to self-filling pens. Their firs...