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Esterbrook #307 Indestructible Pen        


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Description in the 1883 Esterbrook Catalog

"#307 The Indestructible Pen – Golden – Yellow metal pen"

Vintage ad copy, 1877

"#307 - The Indestructible. Made of composition. Can be bent in all directions and restored to shape for use again. A good pen for "curb stone salesmen" and prize merchants." (Note: curb stone salesmen means street peddlers.)



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 the 1883 Esterbrook Catalog

Vintage ad 1877, The American Bookseller, Jul-Dec, 1877




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