Description:
- Name(s): Fountain Spring, Fountain Spring Pen
- Shape: Double Spring
- Finishes: Bronze
- Tip: Pointed
- Prices: 55¢ per gross (1876, 1879), 65¢ per gross (1883, 1887), $1.00 per gross (1918 Cameron Amberg)
Comments:
- “Fine point and flexible action; much liked by penmen.” – 1883
- These spring type of pens, with the large cut in the middle, all derive from an original design by Myer Phineas and captured in his 1853 patent.
- The Esterbrook #126 Double Spring was another Esterbrook that used this type of central cut to improve the springing action of the pen.
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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 Cameron Amberg & Co Stationery Catalog #85, Chicago, May 1918, p 67 & 68. (Contributed by Andrew Midkiff)
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