Description:
- Name(s): D Commercial, Commercial D, Commercial
- Shape: Shoulder
- Finishes: Bronze
- Tip: Pointed
- Prices: 60¢ per gross (1876, 1879, 1883, 1887), $1.00 per gross (1918 Cameron Amberg)
Comments:
- “Medium Fine” listed among Most popular pens. – 1881
- “A fairly flexible pen, with good smooth action” – 1926
- “Flexible, medium. Exceptionally smooth action.” – 1938
- One of the very few Esterbrook’s to have an embossed letter, similar to the more common British pens with these letters. (“J” Pens being the most common)
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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
- Listed in the c1890 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 the 1926 Esterbrook Catalog: while I got this from another source, it appears that this pdf may originally be from the collection of the Pen Collectors of America, or from the same source from which they got their scan.
- Listed in the 1938 Esterbrook Pens Catalog
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