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Our Services
Pens Sales :
We offer you restored vintage fountain pens of quality with
uniqueness of design and writing pleasure at competitive
prices.
Pen Servicing and Pen
Repairs : We will be happy to take your long lost
fountain pen and give it a service and any required repair to
return it's original unique charm.
Pen Search : If you require a
specific pen sought out for you then please contact us with the
details ( see Customer Services section below ).
Vintage Fountain Pens - a quick summary
Why would someone wish to buy an old fountain pen? Simply
because they are beautiful writing instruments made of such high
quality that would be uneconomical to produce nowadays. A
restored fountain pen quickly becomes one of our most prized
possession.
The first fountain pens were first created in the 1890's
after L E Waterman had devised a method for allowing ink to drip
down to the writing nib as and when it was needed.
Arguably some of the best vintage fountain pens were produced
in the period 1900 up to the Second World War. The earliest pens
were made from black hard rubber and then red hard rubber and
then 'red rippled' which was a mix of both black and
red.
By the mid 1920's a new product called celluloid used for
making pens first saw it's appearance. The celluloid meant that
fountain pens could then be manufactured in many colours. The
Parker fountain pens ( just to name one fountain pen maker ) of
the early 1930's are stunning.
Of course the detrimental effects of the 'Depression' years
and the Second World War were nothing to the major impact of the
ball-point pen in the late 1950's. Those fountain pen companies
who took this new innovation into their business plans managed to
survive but the fountain pen manufacturers who saw the ball-point
pen as a fad quickly declined and ceased production.
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