Description:
- Name(s): Amalgam, The Amalgam Pen, Circular Point
- Shape: Inflexible
- Finishes: Nickel (White), Gray
- Tip: Pointed
- Prices: 55¢ per gross (1876, 1879, 1883, 1887), $1.00 per gross (1883 and 1887 nickel plated, 1918 Cameron Amberg)
Comments:
- “Circular point, medium; much liked and largely used.” – 1883
- The pens with this shape are stiff and yet hold a great deal of ink. They work very well for accounting and leger work where a consistent, fine line is useful, and modulation in line is not necessary.
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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)
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