Description:
- Name(s): Senate, The Senate Pen
- Shape: Pinched Center
- Finishes: Copper, Bronze
- Tip: Pointed
- Prices: 55¢ per gross
Comments:
- “A long flexible point.”
- This shape was claimed by the Washington Medallion Pen Company as having been invented by them in 1857. Washington Medallion was the first successful industrial pen manufacturer in the US, and once sued Esterbrook for trademark infringement for their design of nested boxes and the display of a medallion head on the box. It seems pen shape design was not able to be trademarked.
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References:
The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following:
- Displayed on the 1873 Salesman Sample Card
- Displayed on the 1874 Salesman Sample Card
- Listed in the 1876 Illustrated Price List of the Esterbrook Steel Pen Company, January 1, 1876; courtesy of The Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware; contributed by Andrew Midkiff
- Listed in the 1879 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 the Anderson & Krum price list in the 1887 Publisher’s Trade List
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