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Pen Makers and Their Works

This is a straight alphabetic list of pen makers whose works I’ve had the pleasure to examine; if I haven’t looked at a particular pen, it won’t appear here, but a single example of a numerous tribe allows me to go on at some length.  Under each heading you will find a brief description of the maker’s career and fate– in some cases extremely brief, where information is wanting.

A general caution about all the information found here:  I am fallible.  I try to accurate, but I may occasionally fail.  Try to confirm with another source before treating what I write as absolutely factual.  This is especially important in the area of dates; while one can frequently say firmly that a pen was introduced in a given year, the official end of production does not necessarily mean the end of sales, since many makers would carry on making a discontinued pen as long as parts were around.  If something I’ve written is particularly egregious or patently misleading, please let me know, and I’ll do what I can to fix things.

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Another note, about the pictures you’ll find in the pages linked below:  shortly before I began the current update of this site, I came into the necessary equipment to make all the photographs of a consistent scale.  All profile pictures of pen which don’t have a red border around them are to this uniform scale.  This means that if you want to get a sense of the relative sizes of some pens, you need only open the pictures in adjoining browser windows.

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Aiken-Lambert

Airmail

Alster

Apis

Arnold

Art Brown

Aurora


Baoer

Brause

Byers & Hayes


Champion

Conklin

Conway-Stewart

Cross


Delta

Diamond Medal

Diamond Point

Dollar


Eagle/Epenco

Eclipse

Élysée

Emu

Ero

Espero

Esterbrook

Evans

Eversharp


Faber-Castell

Fisher

Franklin-Christoph

Fuliwen


Guider


Hero


Imperial

Italix


Jinhao

John Holland

Kaweco

Koh-i-noor


Lamy

Long Life


Mabie, Todd & Co.

Manuscript

Mentmore

Merlin

Montblanc

Muji


National Security

Noodler’s


Ohto

OMAS

Osmia

Osmiroid


Packard

Parker

Pelikan

PenBBS

Pilot

Platignum

Platinum


Quill


Reform

Remex

Remington

Retro 51

Rotring


Sailor

Salz Bros.

Scripto

Sheaffer

Soyuz

Speedball

Stipula


TWSBI


Wahl-Eversharp

Wality

Waterman

Wearever

Wing Sung

Wyvern


X-Pen


Pens of Uncertain Provenance

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