Found Old Pen? Fully Functional

[APonte]

Found old? Pen. Do not know much about it. Can anyone give me some information about it? (New to forum)

[APonte]

Why can I not do pictures? It's a telescoping fountain pen? Gold none magnetic? 2'' to 5'' only know where it was found. Don't know anything else about it. The tip says Elmwood pen co 4

[APonte]

Found in 1800's country estate barn in New England. Caretakers were from Azores

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[PAKMAN]

Looks to be a portable dip pen probably from the late 1800's.

[TimTheZaj]

That's actuall pretty sweet

[fountainpagan]

very pretty

[pen2paper]

You might want to check early/old trade journals such as "American Stationers" in Google books.

Also, there are collector books on early writing instruments, including dip and retractable.

Elmwood is not familiar to me, (non-expert), but perhaps US based, not European. There is an Elmwood New Jersey, US, but that may not be your retractable pens origin.

Mabie Todd & Co. NY, and F & S Mordan London are two well known early pen companies.

Some websites devote space to study of older writing instruments.

Edited December 4, 2014 by pen2paper