- How to Collect Well:
General Subjects in Pen Collecting
- Grading
Old Pens
- Collector vs User
- How to play at Pen
Shows
- A Few Pen Show Reviews
from the Old Days
- Pen
Restoration/Repair: Brief
- Overview of Pen
Brands
- Where to buy Old Pens.
Or... Ebay vs. Dealer
- Join the Fountain Pen
Board.
- Sign up for FP
Scribbles, the Vacumania Newsletter.
- Parker
- Overview of Parker:
1890's to Current.
- Eyedroppers and
Safeties. The first Parkers
- Early Button Fillers
(1910's-1920's)
- Duofold (1921-
Current)
- Vacumatic
- 1930's re-badges:
Diamond Medal, Webster, Good
Service, Safford, Pencopen, etc.
- Challenger Family
- Parkette Family
- The so-called Thrift
Pens ~1928-1939
- "51"
- Other 1950's-1960's +,
"21, 45, 61, 65 75"
- Some Parker Gems from
David's Personal Collection
- LE Waterman
- Overview Early 1880's-
1950's (current production still in Europe).
Focus on filling mechanisms
- Basic model
nomenclature. It's all about the numbers.
- Early Era.
Eyedroppers: 1880's- 1920s (later?)
- 1920's Hard
Rubber/Ripple/Overlay
- Overview of 1929-1939
Plastic
- Patrician
- Ink Vue
- 1939+, 100 Year Pen
and related
- Taperite
- CF Cartridge Filler
- Conklin
- Overview
- Endura Flat-Top
- Endura Symmetrik
- Nozac
- Downhill from there...
- Quality Smaller Makes
and High Volume Lower Priced Brands
- Carter
- Chilton
- Dunn
- Eclipse
- Esterbrook
- Kraker
- Monroe
- Moore
- Pullman
- Rexall Drug Store
brands: Belmont
- Triad
- Wearever
|
