Collectable Pens

Those steel pens had to be dipped frequently in ink wells, but in 1884 Lewis Edson Waterman succeeded in patenting the first fountain pen, complete with its own ink reservoir – capable of providing an even flow of ink to the nib.  By the late 1880s Waterman was marketing more than fifty different pens.

According to the information in Bonham’s sale catalogue, his company was the first to produce pens in snake design and one of these achieved the second highest price, £31,050 at Bonhams.  This pens was said to be one of only ten of this early snake type known to collectors. Continue reading »

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