A brief guide to Paul Wirt HistoryEverything you ever wanted to know about Wirt feedsA listing of imprints found on Wirt pensA study of clips used by Paul WirtA study of the gold nibs made by Paul Wirt  
     
     
 

Early Wirt Overfeed pens from before 1903
Wirt pens made from 1903 and latter
A study of Wirt gold and silver overlay pens
A collection of Wirt Safety pens
An unusual collection of Wirt Self Fillers
A collection of Wirt Lever fillers
These shouldn't be so hard to find...
Things you might not expect to see A very early Paul Wirt Overfeed fountain pen.
1885 Wirt overfeed
A huge Oversize Paul Wirt Fountain Pen
Huge #8 Overfeed Mint with price band.

A lovely Paul Wirt Pearl and Abalone slab fountain pen
 Early Pearl slab overfeed.

A gold snail reposse overlay with a taper cap fountain pen
Wirt Early solid gold overlay overfeed.

A Paul Wirt hexagon fountain pen
Wirt Hex overfeed pen.


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Paul Wirt Fountain pen #8 Mint with price sticker

Unfortunately, This image does little to show the size of the fountain pen. It is huge. In the 1890 Wirt catalog this was listed as Wirt No. 8 The original price was $3.75

I was very lucky to find this pen at a low price. The seller claimed that, "the pen was missing its insides." I explained to him that since the pen is an eye dropper filler there are no "insides" He understood this, but what he meant was that the pen was missing the section nib and feed.

Since the pen had a price tag, I bought it anyway and was latter delighted to find that the section, nib and feed were actually stuck inside the cap. They were not missing at all.

With a little heating, I was able to finally pry out the section and restore the pen to a pristine example of an early huge Paul Wirt fountain pen. One of my favorites.