Antique Fountain Pens

Bella Cosa: Fountain Pens (Bella Cosa Library)

Language Notes
Text: English, Italian (translation)
Original Language: Italian

Collectible Fountain Pens (Collectibles)

Product Description
A fact-filled collector's guide to the fountain pen, with over five hundred color photographs: part of Flammarion's Collectibles series. Collectible Fountain Pens brings you a comprehensive selection of fine fountain pens past and present, some commonly found but nonetheless well worth collecting, others as elaborate and intricate as jewels, that have become highly sought after by collectors the world over. The book explores the development of the fountain pen as both writing implement and decorative item in over five hundred life-sized color photographs, featuring both historic models from the nineteenth century to classics of design from the present day. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief yet informative text giving the key features of every pen, and the volume is completed by a buyer's guide and list of museums. This attractively designed book is the perfect gift for all those who understand the pleasure of signing their name with a flourish in real ink.

* Over 500 items reproduced life-sized in color in each title
* Features both rare and frequently found models
* Includes bibliographies and useful addresses to find out more


About The Author
Juan Manuel Clark has been collecting pens and writing extensively on the subject in specialist reviews for over ten years.

Collectible Fountain Pens : Parker Sheaffer Wahl-Eversharp Waterman(1018)

Book Description
Don't let anyone borrow that pen until you find out what its worth! You're bound to discover its value in this hefty volume- over 1,200 pens illustrated with pricing information included as well. Pocket-sized prizes of all makes can be discovered within its pages, comprised of pens made by Sheaffer, Wahl-Eversharp, Waterman, Parker, and others. 1996 VALUES

Collecting and Valuing Fountain Pens

Collecting Writing Instruments: From the Flint Tool to the Stylus : From the Quill Pen to...

Book Description
From the flint tool to the stylus, from the quill pen to the fountain pen and felt-tip marker, this book invites one to develop anew or deepen one's love for beautiful old writing instruments. Hundreds of contemporary engravings, illustrations, advertisements, photos, and catalog and brochure excerpts accompany the reader through the written history of the quill pen, pencil fountain pen and paper and their use. Here editors and journalists, salespeople, architects, students, and above all, collectors of historic writing instruments, will find facts about the origin, variations, and further development of one of the most important and personal of our useful tools-the writing instrument. Beginning with the origins of writing, Geyer covers the early writing instruments, steel pens, pencil, fountain pens, ball-point pens, and even the felt-tip marker. The greatest emphasis is on beautiful historical fountain pens. The major brands studied include Conway-Stewart, Cross, Edding, Faber-Castell, Geha, Kaeco, Lamy, Montblanc, Onoto, Parker, Pelikan, Senator, Schwan-Stabilo, Sheaffer, Soennecken, Staedtler,Swan Wahl-Eversharp, Waterman.

About The Author
Dietmar Geyer has devoted himself professionally and privately to writing and its instruments. Professionally he is concerned with the sober, technical side of writing--the production and sales of writing instruments of an internationally famous brand. Privately, the author is a dedicated collector of writing instruments of all kinds.

Discovering Antiques (The storyof Antiques, Volume 2)

Product Description
This volume covers antiques in America and Belgium

Fountain Pens

Fountain Pens (Itinerari D'immagini)

Fountain Pens : United States of America and United Kingdom

Glen B. Bowen - World Publications 'Pen World' magazine, Nov/Dec 2000
good balance of outstanding photography, accurate line drawings and concise text

Don Yendle -- Managing Director Conway Stewart & Co., Ltd. (September 2000)
best guide to British fountain pens history is clear and concise colour reproduction of the pens is stunning and faithful

Fountain Pens and Pencils: The Golden Age of Writing Instruments

Book Description
This book is for all people using, owning, or collecting fountain pens and their matching pencils. It introduces the beginning pen collector to the hobby and answers questions asked by advanced pen collectors about the earliest and rarest pens. With over 1,000 fountain pens illustrated in full color, it will identify pens and provide the opportunity to examine many rare pens that were produced. The examples represent the whole range of the history and production of fountain pens, from the earliest to the present, and from the most common to the rarest. L.E. Waterman, Parker, Swan, Sheaffer, Wahl-Eversharp, Mont Blanc, Crocker, Chilton, Moore, A.A. Waterman and many other companies are included. A large representation of company advertising has been gathered. A must for collectors, dealers, and all those who appreciate the ingenuity and creativity of industry.

About The Author
Stuart Schneider is an attorney in Englewood, New Jersey who has been collecting pens since 1975. He is the author of several books and articles. George Fischler is a senior research microbiologist with the Colgate-Palmolive Company and an avid collector since 1977. With his wife, Michelle, George sponsors the annual New Jersey Pen Show, and he is the Repair & Restoration editor for Pen World magazine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Fountain Pens of the World

Glen B Bowen -- World Publications 'Pen World' Magazine (July/August 1995)
'To say that this book is the definitive book on fountain pens to date is an understatement'

Book Description
The authoritative and comprehensive text features countries not previously covered in other books, a new chapter on limited editions, and a chapter on materials from 1833 to the present day which defines processes such as lacquering, guilloche engraving and plastic identification. The development of design and logos is illustrated by specially produced line drawings. The text is complimented by many period advertisements.

Fountain Pens of the World provides more information on pens and illustrates more pens than any other book on the subject.

Fountain Pens the Collectors Guide to Selectin

From Booklist
The product of a long search for better writing instruments, fountain pens proliferated in this century. Indeed, they dominated the writing utensil market until the post-World War II rise of the ballpoint. They are still considered to indicate a preference for quality over convenience. They're status symbols, and so today's desk sets disguise ballpoints as fountain pens. Produced during a time when illustration and embellishment were prized, they often resembled the jewelry of their era in their fine crafting and artistic appearance. Manufacturers marketed fountain pens as much on their looks as their performance, but Steinberg points out that the pens also facilitated a more artistic, individualistic script. His colorfully illustrated volume is a valuable addition to popular culture and collectibles collections alike. Mike Tribby