If you ever receive a letter from me, chances are it was written with this pen. A 1920's Paul Wirt desk pen. These Wirt desk pens are very hard to come by, and I was lucky to find this one.

The pen has a # 5 Paul Wirt nib, and writes with a smooth silky flow with a wonderful flex. It is one of my best writing Paul Wirt fountain pens.

Paul Wirt was very late in entering the celluloid pen market. One theory is that after Waterman acquired the Day rubber plant in Seymore Ct., Wirt was no longer able to buy rubber barrels and caps, and thus began making his own rubber parts from rubber stock. A 1930's newspaper clipping about the Wirt pen company supports this. It says that "Wirt was proud to manufacture every part of the pen himself. "

In any case even though the celluloid pens came much later than the early overfeed pens, they are frustatingly hard to find. It was during a time of decline for the Wirt pen company, and if you have a pen like this, consider yourself lucky.