Vintage Pen News

 Information on the repair of antique pencils is much more difficult to find than for fountain pens. The skill set required is different, an...

The Parker Wood Pen is one of the most enigmatic of limited editions. Solid documentation is hard to come by, and most of what is known to c...

I've been sounding the alarm about the abuse of flexible nibs for years now , and though others have also tried to spread the word, far ...

  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...