Fountain Pens: The Collector's Guide to Selecting, Buying, and Enjoying New and Vintage Fountain Pens - Hardcover

Steinberg, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561382213 ISBN 13: 9781561382217

Publisher: Courage Books, 1994

Synopsis

A guide to collecting fountain pens features advice on finding, assessing, and buying antique, classic, and intricately designed pens, including the 1920 Orange Parker Duofold and the 1934 Mont Blanc.

About this title

From Booklist:

The product of a long search for better writing instruments, fountain pens proliferated in this century. Indeed, they dominated the writing utensil market until the post-World War II rise of the ballpoint. They are still considered to indicate a preference for quality over convenience. They're status symbols, and so today's desk sets disguise ballpoints as fountain pens. Produced during a time when illustration and embellishment were prized, they often resembled the jewelry of their era in their fine crafting and artistic appearance. Manufacturers marketed fountain pens as much on their looks as their performance, but Steinberg points out that the pens also facilitated a more artistic, individualistic script. His colorfully illustrated volume is a valuable addition to popular culture and collectibles collections alike. Mike Tribby

About this edition

• Publisher: Courage Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1561382213
• ISBN 13: 9781561382217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80