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| Esterbrook # 123 Straight Amalgam |
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| Description: A straight-bodied pen with a sharp point. An oval vent hole with blunt ends. Stiff flex. Gray finish. |
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| Remarks: Uses for stiff flex pens range from making carbon copies to monoline writing. Monoline writing was popular with accountants under the theory that thin, uniform width lines used less ink than lines with swells or wider sections. Beancounters! What will they count next? Description in the 1870 price list calls this pen merely the "Amalgam" without the "Straight" descriptor. Description in the Illustrated Price List of the Esterbrook Steel Pen Company, January 1, 1876, Lists this pen as the "Amalgam Medium". "#123 The Straight Amalgam Pen – Gray – Medium point and stiff action." Description in the 1938 Esterbrook Pen Catalog"Firm, fine. Good bookkeeper's pen. Gray finish"
Description in Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do
"Gray. Medium point and stiff action."
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| Reference: The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following: Listed in the Illustrated Price List of the Esterbrook Steel Pen Company, January 1, 1876; archives of Hadley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware; contributed by Andrew Midkiff Listed in the Trade Price List of the Esterbrook Steel Pen Company (The American Stationer, September 4, 1879) (Contributed by Andrew Midkiff) Listed in 1883 Esterbrook Catalog Listedin the 1938 Esterbrook Pen Catalog Listed in Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do Listed in Whiteapple Multimedia Vintage Nib Chart Listed by Internet Vendor(s) Listed in Internet Auctions Listed in Chappy's Nibs |
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