Esterbrook #24 United States Pen

c. 1873 salesman sample card

Description:

Name(s): United States, United States Pen
Shape: Embossed Leaf
Finishes: White, Fawn, Copper, Bronze
Tip: Pointed
Prices: 55¢ per gross for fawn, white and bronze, 75¢ for copper, $1.00 per gross for white in 1918.

Comments

A “medium coarse” pen with side cut-outs and an embossed “US” shield.

Other Images:

c. 1873 salesman sample card, in “Copper” finish

c. 1874 salesman sample card

c. 1874 salesman sample card, in “Copper” finish

Photograph courtesy of Jiayang Kong, NIBOLOGY

1876 price list

1883 catalog

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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