Esterbrook #322 Inflexible

Description:

Name(s): The Inflexible Pen, Inflexible
Shape: Inflexible
Finishes: Gray, Gold, Black
Tip: Pointed
Prices: 75¢ per gross, $1.00 Cameron Amberg

Comments:

Despite it’s name there is a small amount of flex with these pens. I’ve written with supposedly “soft” fountain pens with less flex.
These also hold a huge amount of ink, and are quite smooth to write with.

Other Images:

1883 Esterbrook Catalog – gray

1883 Esterbrook Catalog – tar coated (black)

1890 Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do

1918 Cameron Amberg

1926 Esterbrook Catalog

1938 Esterbrook Catalog – gray

1938 Esterbrook Catalog – gold plated

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 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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