Esterbrook #499 Music Pen – DRAFT – ©The Esterbrook Project

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Photograph courtesy of Jiayang Kong, NIBOLOGY

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There is a version of this pen that, because of the reservoir on top, fits more into the Drawlet pens, but as you can see from the image in the 1926 Esterbrook Catalog, it is a reservoir placed over a 499 Music Pen.

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1890 Esterbrook Pens and What They Will Do

1938 Esterbrook Catalog

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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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