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Description:

• Name(s): Double Spring, The Double Spring Pen
• Shape: Double Spring
• Finishes: Gray
• Tip: Pointed
• Prices: 75¢ (1883), $1.00 (1918 Cameron Amberg)

Comments:

• Trademark
  • Number: 30,905
  • Reg. Date: 11/23/1897
  • First Use: Jan 1868
  • App Date:10/28/1897
• “A fine pen; very elastic.” – 1883
• “(shorthand). For Stenographer’s Use” – 1890 Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do
• “A fine pen, very elastic.” – 1926
• “Very flexible, fine.” – 1938
• “Very flexible, fine. Fine Points. Standard Commercial Styles.” – 1941
• Based on a design originally patented by Myer Phineas in 1853.

Other Images:

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References:

The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following:

• 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)
• 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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