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Description:

• Name(s): #1
• Shape: Straight
• Finishes: gray
• Tip: Pointed
• Prices: ¢

Comments:

• This pen is unknown in any catalog or sample. It is possible it was made and imprinted as #1, for a co-marketing scheme with a set of school books. (see note below)
• The double grind, as well as the oval imprint is an indication that this is a very early pen. It seems to match the #303 Extra Fine National Series pen that we know is pre-1872 lawsuit after which Esterbrook had to change that pen to the #333.
• The additional imprint of “National Series” on the pen below, and on the #303 is still a bit of a mystery, but I suspect it is probably a co-marketing name to go with a popular set of educational books, popular from the 1860s through the 1880s. The National Series of School Books included readers, spellers, arithmetic, geography, etc… It was not unusual to market pens alongside popular school books or styles of penmanship. Just see all of the Vertical Writer, Natural Slant and other styles Esterbrook made over the years.

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References:

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

• Example in my collection

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