Vintage Pen News

Many years ago I acquired a group of prototype Waterman Hundred Year pens, all of first year design but most in colors that never made it in...

Inkwells are not a collecting focus for me, particularly those from the 20th century. When this one popped up on eBay, however, I made sure ...

   Back in the later 1990s I bought a collection of Waterman pens with emblems that had been assembled by Jim Krause, an eminent watch, cloc...

Traditional Asian lacquer finishes have soared in popularity among pen enthusiasts in recent years, with a commensurate increase in the numb...

The humble but indispensable inner cap was patented 120 years ago today. One of August Eberstein's  greatest contributions to fountain p...

  The following was written back in 2005 as a short piece for the now long-defunct magazine Stylus . From what I recall it didn't end up...

As if I weren't busy enough already, I've been serving for some time now as Librarian for the Pen Collectors of America (a venerabl...

 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...