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Description:

• Name(s): Elastic, The Elastic Pen
• Shape: Pinched Center
• Finishes: Bronze
• Tip: Pointed
• Prices: 55¢ per gross

Comments:

• “Medium fine and elastic.” – 1883
• Another of the pinched center pens. This shape was popular in the mid-late-19th-century, but they disappear by World War I.

Other Images:

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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

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