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- Introduced in 1890 as their third turned-up tip pen: #1876 Telegraph, #256 Tecumseh, #309 Choctaw, and then the #477 Postal. It’s similar to the Choctaw, but larger with a finer point.
- From an 1891 ad for the Postal Pen. “The perfect ease afforded by these [turned-up tip] pens contributes one of the most valuable luxuries provided for writers at this end of the century. The penman can write longer with less fatigue than with the ordinary styles. The tediousness of writing is almost entirely avoided, and the relief is so complete that it converts a drudgery into a delight and a pain into a pleasure, and anyone who has taken up one of these turned up point pens for a companion will never consent to be without it.”
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The existence of this pen is confirmed or surmised by the following:
- Displayed on the 1873 Salesman Sample Card
- Displayed on the 1874 Salesman Sample Card
- 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
- 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 1921 School Supplies Catalog, J. L. Hammett Co., Cambridge, Mass., and Newark, N. J., Catalog #21, 1921; courtesy of The Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware; 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
- Listed in the 1941-42 Esterbrook Pen Catalog: from the Pen Collectors of America library of resources.
- Listed by Internet Vendor(s)
- Listed in Internet Auctions
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