Fountain Pen
name: label: maker
content: L.E. Waterman Company
notes: label: Description
content: Lewis Waterman established the Waterman Pen Co. and received his first pen related patent in 1884. Early Waterman pens had barrels and caps of hard rubber. In the 1940s, the firm introduced pens made of Forticel, a plastic produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. This example is of that type.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Waterman ball-point pens in [Washington] Evening Star (Feb. 16, 1949), p. A-15.
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.334330.129
label: accession number
content: 310799
label: catalog number
content: 334330.129
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fountain Pen
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 1.3 cm; 5 1/8 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm