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Photos from The PENnant article
"The Natural World vs. The Machine Age:
Writing Instruments of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Eras"
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Written by Melissa Lowry and Michael McNeil
Photos by Michael McNeil
All rights reserved by the authors
Full article published in The Pen Collectors of America (P.C.A.) magazine The PENnant
Vol. XVII No. 1 Spring 2003
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Left to Right, Sterling silver dip pen holder, maker unknown, Waterman's 412
Eyedropper fill (ED), hand engraved sterling silver Laughlin ED, hand engraved Wahl-Eversharp pencil. acid etched Mabie Todd - Swan "Fyne Point" advertising pencil for the Simon Benson Lumber Co., hand engraved coin silver pencil J. Skeldon (probably English mfgr.), gold filled & mother of pearl Grieshaber dip pen holder with retractable nib. |
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Detail of sterling silver Art Nouveau roller blotter handle with
Art Nouveau border background. |
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Two examples of enameled
"Magic Pencils" designed as Egyptian sarcophagi. |
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Left to Right, 1930 Good Service lever fill, 1931 Eversharp "Doric" lever
fill, 1932 Monroe lever fill, circa 1938 anodized aluminum Eversharp pencil, 1935 Eversharp "Doric" plunger fill, 1936 to 1939 Waterman's #494 "Bay Leaf" design, sterling silver overlay, lever fill. |
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Left to Right, 1925 Moore L-94 in black hard rubber, c. 1938
Waterman's #32A, c. 1916 Sharp Point mechanical pencil, 1930's Kreko pump fill, c. 1936 Sheaffer's Balance lever fill, 1939 Parker "Vacumatic". |
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Left to Right, circa 1947 Art Deco Eversharp "5th Avenue" with gold
filled cap and trim, 1935 Diamond Medal with Lockdown plunger unit (possibly made by Parker), 1937 Parker depression era pen, button fill, circa 1946 Eversharp "Skyline" fountain pen and ballpoint set, 1942 to 1945 Sheaffer's Triumph "Crest" with gold filled cap, plunger fill. |
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