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Esterbrook # 79 Swan


Description: 

Embossed swan in waist area.






Remarks: 

Description in the 1883 Esterbrook Catalog

"#79 The Swan Pen – Bronze – A good business pen; large, and medium fine"

Description in Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do

"Bronze. Good correspondence 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

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 by Internet Vendor(s)



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