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Esterbrook #217 Bow Spring Pen        


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Remarks:  

Description in the 1879 price list gives this pen in "Bronze".

Description in the 1883 Esterbrook Catalog

"#217 The Bow-Spring Pen – Gray – A very flexible pen, fine"

I do not know what the term "Bow Spring" refers to with this pen.



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 the 1883 Esterbrook Catalog



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