Category: Origin
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How NOT to disassemble a Sheaffer
Today I learned how to NOT disassemble a Sheaffer Triumph 500. I had to get inside it to fix the vacuum piston and I made the incorrect assumption that it...
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Hoover 783
Hoover (along with Orion, London, and Gefion) was one of the sub-brands of the Danish Miller Pen Co., started by Johannes Iversen in 1908, although the Hoover name didn’t appear...
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Hoover 827
Hoover (along with Orion, London, and Gefion) was one of the sub-brands of the Danish Miller Pen Co., started by Johannes Iversen in 1908, although the Hoover name didn’t appear...
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Romance of Pen Industries
This book is interesting to read, partly because it is a window into the extreme colonial views of the British towards India in the early 1900s (the preface alone makes...
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Parker Duofold
This book by David Shepherd and Dan Zazove is a must-read/have for anyone researching the history of the Duofold series of pens. You can borrow the book for a period...
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Parker Duofold Senior
This NOS (New, Old Stock) Duofold Senior was made in 1925 (the date can be established by the fact that it has a single flush cap band or ‘girdle’ as...