Description:

• Name(s): Commercial, Commercial Pen
• Shape: Shoulder
• Finishes: White (#8), bronze (#9) and black (#10)
• Tip: Pointed
• Prices: 50¢ per gross (1876, 1879, 1883)

Comments:

• A “medium-fine business pen.” (1883, c1890) Shoulder shape. Flexible. A very popular pen made for a very long time.
• One of the pens retained for wartime (WWI) production. (1918)
• An usual example of Esterbrook giving the same pen three different numbers depending on the finish: White is #8, Bronze is #9, and Black is #10

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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 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 1918 Announcement to the Trade: Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. Standardization of Esterbrook Pens
• 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
• Listed in the 1941-42 Esterbrook Pen Catalog: from the Pen Collectors of America library of resources.

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