Vintage Pen News

Collectors have long wondered about the naming of the Moore Fingertip. The streamlined nib assembly echoes the aesthetics of airplanes and r...

Waterman's first lever-fillers have been a longstanding focus here, but it is only recently that I have started to look into the chronol...

Most collectors think of Moore as a rather staid company, especially in the hard rubber era. For the company's first couple of decades, ...

When did Waterman first offer lever-fillers for sale, and what are the likely dates for the various design changes in the first few years of...

 It has been a while since I last checked, but digging into some 1920s Waterman research I found to my surprise that several volumes of the ...

Pen history has largely been written by collectors rather than trained academic historians, so one often has to scramble to find solid refer...

  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...