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Vintage
Nib Card
Esterbrook Pen Co.
Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.
NOT FOR SALE
 ESTERBROOK
Assortment 302 |
| •No. 62
Crow Quill or Lithographic. Superlatively fine. Superlatively flexible. |
| •No. 355
A superlatively fine small pen with. superlatively flexibility. Finest
action. |
| •No. 356
An extremely fine small pen with extra flexible action. [enlarged
image] |
| •No. 357
Medium size extra fine pen with super flexible action. |
| •No. 358
Medium size fine pen with an extra flexible action |
| •No. 0
Lettering Pen For clean sharp lettering. |
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•Use
holder No. 32 for Crow Quill Pens.
•Use holder No. 35 for Nos.
354, 355 and 356.
•For all other pens and scratch
knife use standard size holder. |
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Search eBay auctions for Esterbrook
pens and nibs. |
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| Complete
line of Art and Drafting pens |
  Check
out the complete line of Art and drafting pens on page 28
in Bill Acker's 1952
Esterbrook catalog
•No. 62
Crow Quill Pen, Superflexible, Bronze finish.
•No. 63
Crow Quill Pen, Long shoulder, fine, Gray.
•No. 64
Crow Quill Pen, Long shoulder, superfine, Bronze.
•No. 351
Lithographic Pen, Superfine, superflexible, Blue.
•No. 352
Lithographic Pen, Superfine, flexible, Blue.
•No. 354
Mapping Pen, Superfine, superflexible, Black.
•No. 355
Drawing Pen, Superfine, superflexible, Black.
•No. 356
Drawing Pen, Extra fine, extra flexible, Bronze.
•No. 357
Drawing Pen, Extra fine, flexible, Bronze.
•No. 358
Drawing Pen, Medium fine, flexible, Bronze. |
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| Esterbrook
Company History |
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  "Richard
Esterbrook
opened a factory at the foot of Cooper Street. The Esterbrook Steel
Pen Factory was established in 1858 with just 15 workers. At the
time, two of the four pen companies located in the United States
were situated in Camden. Besides Esterbrook, the first in the country,
the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company at 7th and
State streets produced pens, pencil sharpeners and allied products
and employed 125 workers. At its height, the Esterbrook plant had
450 workers and produced 600,000 pens a day.
In 1964, Esterbrook moved from Camden to an industrial park off
Route 70 in Cherry
Hill. In November 1967, it merged with Venus Pen Co. of New
York, and in 1969 Venus-Esterbrook phased out its Cherry Hill operations."
Read
more about the Esterbrook Company History...
 Read
the article "Soup to ships: Camden's past as industrial powerhouse"
by T.A. Bergbauer in
South Jersey's news source: Courier
Post Online
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| More
about Esterbrook's history on John M. Gwin's nib
collecting site |
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| Esterbrook
in Birmingham, UK |
 
"In 1928, John Mitchell began making Esterbrook fountain
pens by arrangement with Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd (UK agents for
Esterbrook - an American firm - who were later reorganised as Esterbrook
Hazell Pens Ltd). In 1947 the Mitchell business and the factory were
sold to Esterbrook Hazell Pens Ltd, who in turn were bought out by
the American Esterbrook company. Then in 1967 the Esterbrook Pen Co
was taken over by the Venus Pencil Co, which had a modern factory
in King's Lynn, Norfolk, to which production was gradually transferred,
ceasing on the Moland Street site in 1972."
Read
the whole story on Bob Miles' page More
about the pen trade |
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| Carl
Barks — the Great Duck Man |
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 Disney
cartoonist Carl Barks (1901-2000) drew Donald Duck comic books for
three decades. Barks invented Uncle Scrooge, Gladstone Gander, the
Beagle Boys, Gyro Gearloose and many more characters. Carl Barks
used the Esterbrook No.356
art and drafting pen.
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| Looking
for Carl Barks web sites? —
start
here and read about the new
book with Carl Barks interviews. |
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 Mickey
Mouse cartoonist Floyd Gottfredson (1905-1986) used a Gillott
290 |
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| Duckman
by Everett Peck |
 Everett
Peck, cartoonist, illustrator and creator of Duckman draws with Esterbrook
048 Falcon nibs. Visit his home
page
»Search
eBay auctions for Duckman
comics and cartoons. |
| Esterbrook's
Pens in the Zanerian Catalog |
|
 Esterbrook
Steel Pens in a vintage Zanerian College Catalog on the
Zanerian.com
web site showing:
•No. A-1
Professional Pen
•No. 14
Bank Pen
•No.048
Falcon
•No.130
Easy Writer
•No.313
Probate Pen
•No.344
Double Line Ruling Pen
•No.442
Jackson Stub
•No.453
Business and College
•No.556
Advanced School
•No.570
Medium PointsSchool
•No.788
Oval Point
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Links
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»The
Spencerian Steel Pen Pen Co
— Read
more about Spencerian Pen Points and
P.R. Spencer, the "father of
American handwriting". |
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»Copperplate
typefaces for MAC and PC — my favorite fonts from ITC.
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»Booksearch
—
Search libraries and antiquarian booksellers. |
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»Nibs.tk
— My new nib site. Dot TK stands for the small island Tokelau
in the Pacific ocean. |
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»Nib
links
Dip pens, Nibs, Pen points, Collections
and Information, Steel Pens, Vintage nib sources — dealers, manufacturers,
societies... |
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»Fountain
Pens and Calligraphy Sets
My favorite fountain pens for calligraphy and handwriting. |
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»Fountain
Pen links
Fountain pens, nibs,
pencils, drafting instruments and
more... |
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 »Renew
Points for Esterbrook fountain pens. Go to Mike
Madison's site for images or check out Larry Snyder's »Esterbrook
Nib Chart« |
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»Esterbrook
Re-new points appear on eBay quite frequently! |
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»Pendemonium
— US dealer of vintage writing collectibles, ephemera, dip pen
nibs, Esterbrook
Fountain Pens, advertisements
and more. |
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»Esterbrook.com
— sells vintage fountain pens. |
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»Bill's
Pens — US pen collector Bill Acker's great fountain pen
site. |
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»Richard's
Pens — Richard Binder collects, repairs and sells vintage
American fountain pens. |
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»Penoply
— A nice Esterbrook
page and a high-resolution scan of the 1959
renew points flyer at Rick Conner's fountain pen site. |
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»PenKreations
— Lisa Hanes sells custom writing pads, modern and vintages Pens
and Esterbrook renew points. |
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»Osmiroid
—
Some Osmiroid nibs are interchangeable with Esterbrook fountain pens.
Read more... |
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»Esterbrook
— Join the Yahoo! group devoted to Esterbrook fountain pens,
mechanical pencils, desk sets and other Esterbrook items. |
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»Courier
Post Online — the Courier-Post is South Jersey's information
resource since 1875. |
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