Fountain Pen
name: label: maker
content: Esterbrook Pen Company
notes: label: Description
content: Richard Esterbrook (1812-1895) was an English Quaker who established the Steel Pen Manufacturing Co., in Philadelphia, in 1856. Two years later, now trading as R. Esterbrook & Co., he built a factory across the Delaware River, in Camden, N.J.; an office and showroom in New York City came later. Attention to fountain pens began in the 1920s. This example has a plastic case, and an inscription that reads “R. Esterbrook & Co.” Ads in 1930s described Esterbrook fountain pens with Durachrome points as inexpensive, sturdy and popular.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Celanese Plastics Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334330.128
label: accession number
content: 310799
label: catalog number
content: 334330.128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fountain Pen
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.1 cm x 1.3 cm; 4 3/4 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 12.065 cm x 1.27 cm