Below is an image of the Caws Dashaway
#130, the same model pen used by Presidents Grover Cleveland and
Benjamin Harrison.
President Cleveland actually said, according to a Caws catalog:
"I find the Caw's Dashaway Fountain pen very valuable as
a signature pen."
What the image below fails to demonstrate is the large size of
this pen. The ink bottle is much larger than modern ink bottles.
The nib is about the same size as a Waterman #8 but the tines are
a little longer.
The ink bottle is also quite a rarity. Caws bottles are not so
hard to find, but finding one that still has the original cork and
label is next to impossible.
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