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Finding any Wirt Overfeed with a 1885 imprint is a real challenge. These were made only between 1885 and 1887 and are the first pens from the Wirt factory. If you have one consider yourself very lucky.
The early Wirt pens were what the pen using public expected. These fountain pens resembled the earlier Stylographic pens in shape and size and color. Interestingly, the cases tended to be made at the same place, the H.P. Day Rubber company in Seymore Ct. If you study the pen carefully above you will notice several common characteristics that will help you identify a Wirt overfeed if the pen is worn and the Imprint is unreadable. 1. The overfeed. Several other pen also have overfeed designs so it is not a distinctive Wirt characteristic, but it is a good tip off. 2. The Grecian Urn style section. Wirts sections tend to be more curvy than others. That with the overfeed is a great way to spot a Wirt from across a pen show table. 3. The 3-rope bands on the end of the section. Some early Wirts do not have this, and several other pens do have it, so you need to be careful. 4. The short caps were another reminiscent artifact from the earlier Stylographic pens. |
