Our organization exists to foster and maintain the integrity of pen collecting, promote the use of fountain pens, encourage and promote effective education, communications and understanding between all collectors, and define pen collecting as an international hobby.
Members are interested in the history, manufacture and use of writing instruments.
We strive to develop a spirit of camaraderie among the pen collecting community. In the mid-1980's, under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Tefft, a dozen or so pen collectors living in Southern California, whose paths would cross at the Rose Bowl Swap Meets or other flea markets, organized themselves as the Southern California Pen Collectors Club. An informal newsletter would be circulated among the members whenever there was enough news to print, and a Reference Library of old pen ads, catalogs, repair manuals and articles was gradually organized. Though the Club never promoted itself, membership started to come in from around the country. With the increased mailing costs for the newsletter, the Club was required to charge nominal dues as membership approached 100.