Description:
- Name(s): The Telegraph Pen, Telegraph
- Shape: Leaf
- Finishes: Bronze, Gold
- Tip: Turned Up
- Prices: 75¢ per gross
Comments:
- The first turned-up tip pen made by Esterbrook. Introduced in 1876, probably in time for the large Esterbrook display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
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References:
The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following:
- Included in the 1877 or 1878 ads in the American Bookseller
- 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)
- Listed in the 1918 Announcement to the Trade: Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. Standardization of Esterbrook Pens
- c1919 Salesman Sample Book “Export”
- 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.
- Listed by Internet Vendor(s)
- Listed in Internet Auctions
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