Esterbrook #442 Jackson Stub – DRAFT


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Description:

  • Name(s): Jackson Stub
  • Shape: Falcon Stub
  • Finishes: Gray, Gold
  • Tip: Stub
  • Prices: ¢

Comments:

  • One of Esterbrook’s biggest selling pens since it’s introduction in 1889.
  • It was a copy of the falcon stub brought out by Leon Isaac in Philadelphia in 1886. When Esterbrook announced their new Jackson Stub, Leon Isaac took out a big ad (see below) reminding them that Isaac had copyrighted the terms “Falcon Stub” and “Stub Falcon” so you never see those terms used for the Jackson stub until well into the early 20th-century. Leon Isaac was sold to Turner and Harrison in 1900 who continued selling the Leon Isaac Glucinum Pens until their dissolution in 1952.

Other Images:

1890 Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do
1918 Cameron Amberg
1921 Hammet Catalog
1926 Esterbrook Catalog
1938 Esterbrook Catalog
1938 Esterbrook Catalog – gold plated. I have never seen one of these. It would be impressive.
1889 ad by Leon Isaacs, just a few months after Esterbrook’s announcement of the 448. It is pointedly reminding Esterbrook, and the stationery trade, that Isaacs owns the copyright on “Falcon Stub” and “Stub Falcon.”

References:

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