Description:
- Name(s): The Blackstone Pen, Blackstone
- Shape: Long Stub
- Finishes: Nickel, Black, Gold
- Tip: Stub
- Prices: 75¢ per gross, $1.00 per gross – nickel
Comments:
- “A broad stub point, for Lawyers’ use, and backhand writing.”
- “Coarse stub engrossing”
- “Retained for war-time production”
- “Firm, broad stub. Engrossing Pen.”
- One of their broadest stubs.
- I’ve only ever seen examples in the black finish. The 1890 “Esterbrook Pens and What They Can Do” is the last time any finish besides black is mentioned.
- In some advertisements, this is sometimes called a Signature Pen, and it would make a rather dramatic (and large) signature!
- One of Esterbrook’s more popular pens. Since these weren’t commonly used as everyday writers, being so broad, you can often find partial boxes or larger groups of them.
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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
- 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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