Vintage Pen News

  Eagle's glass-cartridge fountain pens are relics that I've always been content to regard as nonfunctional historic curiosities. A ...

The R.G. Dun collection of 19th-century credit reports first came to my attention years ago with the publication of Barbara Lambert's A...

A customer was recently asking about safety pen leakage. A safety with good seals should be as leakproof as any fountain pen could be. That ...

  I recently promised Pennant editor Jim Mamoulides a few short articles on early safety pens. Over the years I'd managed to accumulate...

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...