Author: geoff
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Waterman 0552 1/2 L.E.C.
I’m quite certain that this pen has an interesting history that I’ll never learn. The model number gives us lots of information about it already: 0: gold filled5: full overlay5:...
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Waterman numbering system
There’s a very nice summary on this page. The 1925 catalogue (available for viewing and download from archive.org) contains the page below with similar information.
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Cantor Lectures 1905
Reservoir, Stylographic, and Fountain Pens. by James P. Maginnis. Lecture delivered February 6, 1905.
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American Stationer
Issues of the American Stationer are available on archive.org 1874 April 6 – 1874 Dec 23 1875 Jan 8 – 1876 Jan 8 1878 Jan 3 – 1878 Dec 26...
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Conklin Catalogues 1929 – 1937
Link to archive.org
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Manufacture of Waterman pens
Two articles from the journal Machinery in December 1911 and January 1912 describing the process of manufacturing the barrels and nibs of Waterman pens. The screenshots are links to the...
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Geha Gold Wing 735
The Geha Company was started in Hannover, Germany in 1918 by two brothers, Heinrich and Conrad Hartmann. (The company name is a shortened form of Gebrüder Hartmann, or Hartmann Brothers). The company, which...
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Penol 3K
In the mid-1930s, Penol introduced two faceted models, the 8K (for “kanter”, the Danish word for “edges”) and the smaller 3K. In 1937, the 3K was updated to have a...