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| Esterbrook # 256 Tecumseh Pen |
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| 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.) |
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| 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. "#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."
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| 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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