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Description:

• Name(s): 123, Straight Amalgam, The Straight Amalgam Pen, Amalgam Medium
• Shape: Straight
• Finishes: Gray
• Tip: Pointed
• Prices: 50¢ per gross

Comments:

• One of the longest-lasting pens in the Esterbrook catalog.
• Also one of the models that sometimes is know by just its number.
  • 1876, 1879, 1887: Amalgam, Medium
  • 1883: The Amalgam Pen
  • 1890, 1926: Straight Amalgam
  • 1938, 1941: 123
• “Medium Point and Stiff Action” – 1883, 1890
• “Medium point, rigid” – 1926

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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 c1890 Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do
• 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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