Vintage Pen News

  This lovely pencil arrived not long ago but to my frustration I could not recall what the letters "W. M & C" stood for. No l...

  Having grown up in California, I have a special interest in pens made there. Especially appealing are those dating back to the 19th centur...

  We have been selling specially-sized O-rings for plunger-filler ("vacuum-filler") packing unit repair for quite a few years, but...

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...