B. Fountain Pen History Resources and Posts

Patents

The mother of all database searches: A way to extract all post-1920 pen related patents from the European Patent Office.

Early Patents . FPs existed earlier than we think. Look at this interesting article too.

A list of patents from 1911-1919

Patents of Parker Sheaffer Esterbrook Patents of Wahl/Eversharp | Wearever (59 patents from the pariah of the FP world) Waterman (incomplete)

Historical information about FPs through ads and other ephemera

• From the Journal of the Society of Arts:Three 'Cantor' lectures given by James.P.Maginnis in early 1905 on 'Reservoir Fountain Pens and Stylographic Pens':(1) Ancient Writing Instruments, (2) Stylographic Pens and Manufacture of Gold Pens (3) Fountain Pens.
• FP ads in The Tech : I: 1881-1899 II: Moore ads 1902-1915 III: 1900-1919 (others) IV The roaring twenties (1920-1929) V: 1930-1941 VI: Parker dominates 1942-1960 VII: 1960-today
• Chilton Ads: By Dr. Seuss ! Long Island Boston
• Prince's Protean, the first commercially successful FP in the US
• New York FP companies in 1925 (since that post a much more complete list of NY FP makers has appeared here).
• Early (pre-1850) fountain pens
• An interesting 1895 document
• Dissolved - Companies were closed