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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 #27a Pearl and Abalone

Another one of my favorite Paul Wirt fountain pens. An early Wirt overfeed with alternating pearl and abalone slabs. Several other makers used pearl slabs including Parker, Waterman, Welty, and a host of others. Additionally, there are many no-name fountain pens that have pearl slabs. However, finding a Wirt pearl fountain pen is not at all easy.

This pen appears in the 1890 Paul Wirt fountain pen catalog as pen No 27a. The original price was $5.50.

Around 1905 Wirt released a similar pen, Paul Wirt fountain pen No. 73. It too was a Pearl slab, taper cap pen but had the underfeed style section, nib, and feed. These earlier overfeed pearl pens are much harder to find.

This fountain pen bears an interesting inscription ornately carved into the pearl slabs with a cursive text that reads:

"Presented to F.M.T.
By Effie Dec. 25th '90"


 

This was not a cheap pen for me. I traded an early Pilot solid 9kt gold overlay for this pen, which was worth probably twice the value of this Wirt, but I already had a few Pilot overlays and not a single pearl Paul Wirt fountain pen, so I gritted my teeth and made the trade. Once the fountain pen arrived, I never regretted it.