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September 29, 2015

The Conklin Buildings

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    , and the first self-filling fountain pens.       [Posted on L&P on Nov 12, 2012.]         Here are a few articles from The A...
September 27, 2015

Prince’s Protean, and vulcanite

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 , and hard rubber. [Posted on L&P on Apr 21, 27, 28, July 13, 14, 2007, and June 2, 2009.]         Antonios Zavaliangos wrote, “T...
September 24, 2015

The Goble Inkwell

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        You all know, by now, how much I like globe ink bottles, however, that’s not a misspelling in the title.  But it is globe-shap...
September 21, 2015

The MacKinnon ‘Sovereign’ Pen

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 , the original “Longshort” pen. [Posted on L&P on Feb 28, 29, Mar 7, 2012.]         Here’s a picture of what was probably t...
September 18, 2015

The survival rate of Cross pens

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, and the Waterman’s production numbers. [Posted on L&P on Jan 16, 2013.]         Way back on May 8, 2003, Vance Koven wrote on Zoss...
September 15, 2015

Two Crossed Nibs

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[Posted on L&P on May 8, and 10, 2010.]         US trademark no. 6,078 by Norris H. Spaulding from May 14, 1878, and used since 1...
September 12, 2015

The Waterman’s color nibs

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  , and the illusive “White” nib.     [Posted on Zoss on Jan 9, 2001, on Pentrace on Jan 9, 2005, on FPN on Apr 29, 2005, ...
September 09, 2015

The Matchstick Filler

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  , and a ball-pointed nib on an ex-USSR Ukrainian pen, The Kharkiv “Autopen”. [Posted on L&P on Sept 20-30, 2008, and on FPN on ...
September 01, 2015

Printers’ Ink magazine

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  , and Printers’ Ink Monthly magazine.   The volumes of Printers’ Ink in these Hathi Trust links were scanned variously from the holdings...