Collection of Edwardian Pen Nib Labels and Advertising Ephemera
- England and United States , 1910
England and United States, 1910. Very good to near-fine. Minor toning, the odd spot or short tear throughout. Glassine paper design has edgewear/chipping with minor loss. Evidence of previous adhesive to some items. One pen label has remains of black paper to lower left-hand corner.. A fine collection of one hundred sixty one (161) items relating to the sale of pen nibs in Edwardian England and America, comprised of: one hundred fifty (150) chromolithographed labels for pen boxes of those 45 are unique; one (1) illustrated advertising cover; two (2) illustrated trade cards; five (5) illustrated advertising leaflets; one (1) card with twelve (12) actual Mapping Pen nibs; one (1) typewritten letter on illustrated company letterhead; a blotter, and one (1) original ink label design on glassine paper (keyline drawing for lithography). Over twenty different manufacturers and brands are represented in this collection, most based in Birmingham, London, or New York.
Highlights include the original pen label design on glassine ("David's Oriental Carmine Ink"), as well as the following: a sample card of pen nibs ("Joseph Gillott's Mapping Pen"); an illustrated advertising cover for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen, featuring a Gibson Girl; a pen label featuring a photograph of Queen Mary, Queen Consort to George V ("The Queen Mary Pen"); a pen label utilizing Abraham Lincoln's likeness (The "Abraham Lincoln Pen"); and two leaflets by C. Brandauer & Co. with actual size illustrations of pen nibs for sale.
There are 20 different types of pens represented in the labels
Double Cement
Double Elastic
Engrossing
Exchequer Bankers pen
Falcon
Ladies Running Hand (extra fine)
Latem (incorrodible)
London
Mapping Quill
Music Ruling
Pencil pen
Post Office
Round hand
Scholastic
School
Shell Pointed
Some display nib
Spencerian
Steel
Stencil Cutters
Includes two circulars with images and product information and usage for C. Brandauer & Co's Ltd including the Anti-Blotting Pens and Circular Pointed Pens (these represent an additional 49 types of nibs. Pen brands represented in this collection include: Hinks, Wells & Co.; Perry & Co.; British Pens Ltd.; William Mitchell; Plumes Pestalozzi; Perry & Co.; Ivison, Phinney & Co.; Ivison Blakeman Taylor & Co.; A. Sommerville & Co.; Thos. Bower & Son; F. Collins & Co.; Claire Clifford & Co.; MacKinnon Pen Company; T.N. Hickcox & Co.; C. Brandauer & Co.; Esterbrook Steel Pen Manufacturing Co.; F.W. Snow; Joseph Gillott & Sons; Reliance Pencil Co.; Gustave Fischer & Co.; and Thaddeus Davids Ink Co., Inc.
Highlights include the original pen label design on glassine ("David's Oriental Carmine Ink"), as well as the following: a sample card of pen nibs ("Joseph Gillott's Mapping Pen"); an illustrated advertising cover for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen, featuring a Gibson Girl; a pen label featuring a photograph of Queen Mary, Queen Consort to George V ("The Queen Mary Pen"); a pen label utilizing Abraham Lincoln's likeness (The "Abraham Lincoln Pen"); and two leaflets by C. Brandauer & Co. with actual size illustrations of pen nibs for sale.
There are 20 different types of pens represented in the labels
Double Cement
Double Elastic
Engrossing
Exchequer Bankers pen
Falcon
Ladies Running Hand (extra fine)
Latem (incorrodible)
London
Mapping Quill
Music Ruling
Pencil pen
Post Office
Round hand
Scholastic
School
Shell Pointed
Some display nib
Spencerian
Steel
Stencil Cutters
Includes two circulars with images and product information and usage for C. Brandauer & Co's Ltd including the Anti-Blotting Pens and Circular Pointed Pens (these represent an additional 49 types of nibs. Pen brands represented in this collection include: Hinks, Wells & Co.; Perry & Co.; British Pens Ltd.; William Mitchell; Plumes Pestalozzi; Perry & Co.; Ivison, Phinney & Co.; Ivison Blakeman Taylor & Co.; A. Sommerville & Co.; Thos. Bower & Son; F. Collins & Co.; Claire Clifford & Co.; MacKinnon Pen Company; T.N. Hickcox & Co.; C. Brandauer & Co.; Esterbrook Steel Pen Manufacturing Co.; F.W. Snow; Joseph Gillott & Sons; Reliance Pencil Co.; Gustave Fischer & Co.; and Thaddeus Davids Ink Co., Inc.