Description:
- Name(s): The Chancellor Pen, Chancellor, The Chancellor Engrossing
- Shape: Small Stub
- Finishes: Bronze, Gray, Nickel, Gold
- Tip: Stub
- Prices: 75¢ per gross, $1.00 per gross (Nickel, Bronze, Gold)
Comments:
- “A medium stub pen, much liked for back hand, &c.”
- “A Fine pointed Stub Pen. Very popular, and well adapted for backhand writing.”
- Retained for war-time production
- “Firm, small stub. The perfect pen for backhand writing.”
- One of the most popular pens. A great many still can be found.
- In 1914, when The Stationer’s Association of New York held their ninth annual banquet at famed NY restaurant Delmonico’s, Esterbrook gave out a party favor to everyone in attendance. What they chose to give out was a box of #239 Chancellor pens in gold plate. (see photograph below)
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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 1918 Announcement to the Trade: Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co. Standardization of Esterbrook Pens
- 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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