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See Mabie in America by David Moak

Edward Todd created high quality gold pens and briefly joined with Mabie Todd before going into business for himself. As fountain pens became popular in the late 1880's Edward Todd ordered hard rubber holders from Julious Schnell and sold these fountain pens.

Below is an image of one of my favorite pieces of ephrema, an 1893 Business card, signed by Edward Todd himself. If I understand the card correctly, Edward is writing to appologize for a slow return of a repaired pen. The customer sent the pen on the 15th of September and the repair isn't finished after two weeks. Wow... I oftenhave to wait six months to a year to have some of my fountain pens repaired.