Horace Smith may have been one of the early jewelers (H Smith) who partnered with A G Bagley and was sued for breech of partnership in the 1860's. If so, it didn't slow him down much.

Smith made many fine dip pens and towards the 1880's he began representing fountain pen makers at his shop. Smith was the first New York agent to represent Bloomsburg pen maker Paul Wirt and his fountain pen, one of the early leading Fountain Pen manufacturers in the 1880's and 1890's.

Smith is famous in that he was the first pen seller to sell a Paul Wirt pen to Mark Twain.

In the early 1900's Smith sold a lot of taper capped, pearl slab pens like the one below.

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