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- This was the pen with which Charles Schultz drew every single Peanuts cartoon strip. In 1952, when Esterbrook mentioned that they were stopping production of all of their steel pens, the story is that Schultz bought every box he could find because he said he would stop drawing the strip if he couldn’t use this pen.
- As a result of this story, this is a fairly rare and always expensive pen when found in the wild. But if you want to experience why Charles Schultz liked this pen so much, you can just use a regular #14 Bank Pen. It’s the exact same pen, just without the coating.
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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 1913 American Stationer Radio Pens ad
- 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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