Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-07-13
NObOdy can Afford TO use Any
thing but a Gold Pen.

Z; A pen, 10 De Il kOOu pen, must not Only
be good while it is new. bnt il must be
permanently good. a steel pen may be
accidentally good. but it is only the acct.
dent of an hour. To perpetuste the good
qualities offs pen, it must he made of a
substance which will not be corroded by
acids of the ink, nor affected by the wear
of writing. Gold pens will resist these
acids. and the iridosmin, with which all
good gold pens are pointed. will wear
for generations.
NOBODY can AFFORD TO USE a HAND MADE
GOLD PEN,
Because hand made gold pens are une-
quail in hardness, spring, and temper
If one side is rolled or hammered a little
harder thar the other, as must be the case
with all pens made by hand, it will show
it in some way by the point on that side
catching on the paper. 1t will show it.
too, by the uncertainty with which the
pen moyes-the di~sobediance which il
shows to the writer-sometimes slipping
over the paper so easily a. to 60 far be-
yond where il is meant to 90, and some
times dragging Sd heavily as to fall short
Of the intended mark, ormaking 4 straight
line when it should make n curve. Be
sides, the hand processes require that the
metal should be worked in a stale in
which it is impossible to bring out that
elasticity of which the metal is capable
None ct these faults are found in machine
made pens.
NOBODY CAN AFFORD To USE A GoLD PEN
wITB TIE POINT ~soLDRRED ".
The points of gold pens are small par
ticles of itidosmin, which by all the mintr
manufacturers are sOldered to the gold =
This solder is slowly corroded ty the
acids of ink. and consequently the points
are sure 10 come offsooner or later. When
pens are repointed. the points are always
soldered on. This takes the temper out
OF the nip, thus destroying its elasticity,
as well as subjecting the pen TO the sure
process of coIrosion. 1t is, therefore, bad
economy to repoint gold pens; and. when
repointed in the best manner. they rare
ly give satisfaction. At their value rs
gold, exchange old pens for new ones, the
points of which have been imbedded in
the melted gold. so as Ia become a part
of it. They will never come off.
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO USE ANY GoLD PEN
Bot NoRToN's
Because Morton makes his pens by
machinery, most of which is patented
and cannot be used by any other penma-
ker. He has $50. 900 worth of machinery
employed in the production Of gold pens.
By the use of this machinery. one dol
lars worth of labor rolls out and ham
mers as many pens in his factory IS thir-
ty dollars worth in any other; and. while
all pens rolled by rolls. the adjust
ments of which are constantly changed,
are variable in density and spring, and
their variations are increased by hand
hammering, Morton's pens are rolled out
by machinery, which, in the most un
skillful hands, can produce nothing but
the best and most equsbie and uniform
work, and are hammered by a hammer
which gives each pen the same number
of blows, of precisely the same force, the
hammer striking each exactly in the same
way. So great Importance does Mr.. Nor
ton attach to the securing of perfect con-
troll over the pen, that he has expended
more than $1,000 for that purpose on the
machinery now used by him. Mr.. Nor
ton has produced, at an expense of s 900
and upwards. the machinery which he
now uses, in order to make certain that all
the machinery shall be perfectly parallel,
and that each side shall Always have ex-
the anne amount of metal of equal
density.
A large stock always on hand which we
are selling at the old prices. Every pen
warranted, at Kings Jewelry Store.
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