Description:
- Name(s): The Extra Broad Point, Extra Broad Point
- Shape: Long Stub
- Finishes: Bronze
- Tip: Stub
- Prices: 75¢ per gross
Comments:
- “Quite popular. Most popular pens.”
- “The Broadest Point of the Engrossing Series.”
- “Firm, extra broad stub”
- It would be interesting to test this against the #284 Blackstone, another extremely broad stub. I suspect the Blackstone is slightly broader, but it’s considered a “signature pen” rather than part of the engrossing series.
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References:
The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following:
- 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 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
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