Vintage Pen News

  When it comes to old writing instruments, the least standardized consumables must be erasers. There are some hard to find lead sizes, to b...

New Jersey: A Guide to its Present and Past , 1939, p. 335 I'm afraid we are a little late to book a group tour of Waterman's New Je...

It has long been known that Waterman purchased overlays from George W. Heath & Co . A number of early Watermans bear silver overlays wit...

Once upon a time and long long ago, American collectors would occasionally come across safety pens with fancy overlays like the one shown ab...

There is a misconception among pen collectors regarding the claim that certain aftermarket pen parts were made on original Parker machinery....

  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...