Kamakura Pen's Archive. This is a collection of Pen Articles, Fountain Pen Histories and Essays that have been published either online or in obscure books or jorunals. Things that I thought were too good to be lost to obscurity and should be put online where a Google search could unearth them easily for the fountain pen enthusiast and fountain pen researcher.. If you know of an article that should be placed here, please let me know.
Feel free to use this information as you like, but I would appreciate a mention for the Kamakura pens site if you publish an article, or book with information gathered here. Recently, I have seen people publish pen articles exclusively from my archive with out any mention at all and that always breaks my heart.
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Babe
Ruth's Paul Wirt Fountain Pen
An interesting story about Babe Ruth nad his lost Paul Wirt fountain pen.
Red & Orange Hard Rubber.
George Kovalenko discuses the mystic color of red hard rubber ( rhr )
and the prospects of manufacturering a modern version of this material.
How a Fountain Pen is Made
An interesting essay from 1892 describing how the Crown Fountain Pen company
of Chicago manufactured their pens.
Iridium Kiss
A history of Iridium, the ultra hard metal that was used
for tipping the points of fountain pens. Written by Ron Dutcher, first
published in the Pennant.
Report of the Gold
Pens exhibbited in Vienna 1873
Before we had pen shows, the world depended upon Expositions
and World Fairs to learn about the latest pens and writing tools.
Sheaffer From
Hell
An essay about one of the first Fountain Pen that I ever saw.
The Prince Protean Pen
An 1856 essay praising one of the first fountain pens manufactured.
The Original
Sheaffer Salesman.
A newspaper article that gives some of the early Sheaffer Fountain Pen
history
The Paul Wirt Bell
An interesting human interest stroy of Paul Wirt, one of the legendary
fathers of the fountain pen industry.
Waterman Fountain Pen
Scandals
A short essay on some things that you might not have known about the Waterman
Pen company
Dr. Shinji Oba's Pen
A fountain pen story told to me by my good friend
Pens of the Times
A delightful little essay where Rob Astyk describes what he thinks are
the best fountain pens of the ages.
Owning The Past
Special thanks to Rob Astyk and Online Stylophiles for granting Permission
to reprint this wonderful essay here on Kamakura Pens
On the Feeding
of Fountain Pens
A short essay from the Stenographer's Magazine, The Gregg Writer. Hard
to imagine, but in 1933 eyedropper fountain pens were already considered
fossils.
The Manufacture of
Steel Pens
An essay describing the process of English steel pens
The Esterbrook Pen Company
An early history of Camden New Jersey that describes the origins of the
early Steel Pen maker.
James
W. Laughlin
A short biography of the founder of the Laughlin Fountain Pen company
Gosh,
What is Maki-e?
A very basic introduction for people who have never
heard
of maki-e.
John
Holland Biography.
Very early history for the fountain pen giant from Cincinnati
W
A Houston Biography.
1912 biography for the fountain pen maker from Sioux City
The Wahl Fountain Pen.
A biography of John Conrades Wahl, inventor of the Wahl Fountain Pen.
Case For the Fountain
Pen Habit.
1907 tips on dealing with leaky eyedropper fountain pens.
The Harvard Fountain
Pen Company
An 1886 Biograhy of the Harvard Fountain Pen Company of Boston and New
York. Makers of the Harvard and Gem Fountain Pens and the McKenzie Stylographic
Pen.
Weidlich
Pen's
An intersting beginning of the Weidlich Pen company
Wilcox
Fountain Pen History
A short blurb that tells of the beginnings of the Wilcox Fountain Pen
company.
Waterman Fountain Pen History
and Clippings
Some interesting quotes from Lewis Waterman
Conklin
Fountain Pen history:
News of the labor strike that tolled the bell for the death fo the Conklin
Fountain Pen Company
Crazed Celluloid Fountain pens
Professor Antonios Zavaliangos explains why this crazing happens to our
fountain pens
Parker Fountain Pen company
history
1922 story of the Parker Airplane
Onoto Fountain Pen Company
History
A short story about New York Senator Depew and his Onoto
John Foley Vacation
An interesting clipping about the John Foley Pen company, his family,
and a connection with Vanderbilt.
Crocker Pen
Notes about the Origins of Seth S Crocker fountain pen company
The Dunlap Stylographic Pen
Several Clippings about an early Boston Pen Maker.
The Central Pen Company
Some notes about an obscure Fountain Pen Company.
The Yale Pen Company
Some interesting observations about a very early fountain pen maker.
Livermore Stylographic
Pen
Some notes about one of the early Stylographic Pen makers, who like Cross,
Caws, and MacKinnon, claimed to be the first pen maker
Livermore Biography
Where would the Bluebeard
of Chicago hide his poison?
An interesting tale of a serial killer and his stylographic pen
Moores Unleakable
An interesting ad from the Notable Boston Pen Maker