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ESTERBROOK 256


Esterbrook # 256 Tecumseh Pen


Description: 

A pen with a pinched waist, a spoon head, and an unusual tri-lobed vent hole. Sharp turned-up tip. Some flexibility. Bronze finish.


(The vent hole was enhanced to make it more easily seen.)




 Esterbrook #256 Tecumseh Pen

Remarks: 

Introduced in 1877

This pen looks like a version produced by an English manufacturer down to the same vent hole. Whether it was cross-licensed or somebody copied someone else isn't known.

Description in the 1883 Esterbrook Catalog

"#256 The Tecumseh Pen – Bronze – Turned up point; very smooth and pleasant writer."

Description in Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do

"Bronze. Turned-up point for rapid writng. Fine."
 


Reference:  The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following:

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

Listed in Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do


Listed in the Cameron Amberg & Co Stationery Catalog #85, Chicago, May 1918, p 67 & 68. (Contributed by Andrew Midkiff)

Listed in Internet Auction(s)


Trademark 1878

TGrademark #54,431, 2-10-1911. in use since 1877




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