Known Brands: Usa - North-America

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Fountain Pen Network,

 

As a side effect of the recent re-shuffle of forums (December 2014), which has more or less been concluded now, a list of all pen brands worldwide, as far as any information could be found on these brands, was compiled. Please find below the list of pens, which are discussed specifically in this forum.

 

For a complete list of all known pen brands, check here:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/281024-pen-brands-worldwide-by-country/

 

The idea is to try and keep this list up to date, and if any of you notice that pen brands are missing, please add those to this list, preferably with a reference; I will add them only with pleasure.

Similarly, please let me know if any typos were made, I'll gladly correct those too, and also any main brands for the brands listed. In case of incorrect attributions, please let me know too, preferably with a reference too: the idea is to, possibly, create an entry per brand with some sort of description if at all possible (time-wise), or if you yourself would like to do so - by all means post it, and notify me.

 

Thank you all very much in advance , and enjoy!

 

Warm regards, Wim

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List of known brands from the USA, discussed here in the USA - North-America forum, with the exception of Cross, Esterbrook, Parker, Shaeffer, Wahl/Wahl-Eversharp and Waterman branded pens, as they have their own dedicated forums. Do note that Danitrio, or Dani Trio pens, although strictly a USA brand, are discussed in the Japanese pens forum, due to materials and techniques used.

 

USA

666 (Salz Brothers)

4-fill (Moore)

AA (Chicago Safety Pen Co.)

A.A. Waterman

Ackerman

Accurate

Advance

Aikin Lambert

Ajax

Alco (Aikin Lambert)

Aletto Brothers

All American (Conklin)

Ambassador

American

Arbutus

Arnold

Artcraft (Cromer Artcraft Pen Company)

Autofiller

Banner

Banker`s

Barker (A.J. Barker, Taunton, Massachusetts)

BB Stylo

Beacon (Aikin Lambert)

Beaumel

Belmont

Bexley

Black&White (Salz Brothers)

Blofil (Diamond Point)

Bonded

Boston (Boston Fountain Pen Company)

Boston (Boston Safety Pen Co)

Brian Gisi

Broadway

Camel (Newark Pen Co.)

Cameleon

Capitol (Aikin Lambert)

Cardinal

Carey

Carter

Carter's

Cascade

Cavalier (Petersburg, Virginia)

Caw's

Century

Chameleon

Champion (Beaumel)

Chic (Holland)

Chicago Safety

Chilton (Chilton Pen Co. Boston)

Chilton (Long Island New York)

Classic Pens

Collegiate

Columbian

Commander

Conklin

Conqueror (Salz Brothers)

Corona

Craig (Sheaffer)

Criterion

Crocker

Cross

Crown

Cult Pens

Cutey

Dani Trio (or Danitrio - Dani International Co.)

Desiderata (Desiderata Pen Company)

Dewey

Diamond Point

Diamont

Dixie (Kraker Pen Co.)

Doripen

Drew

Drokel

Due-tone (Parker)

Düller (DWR)

Dunn

Durabilt (Beaumel)

Eagle

Eclipse

Economy

Edison (Petersburg Virginia)

Edison (Edison Pen Co. Milan Ohio)

Educator (Aikin Lambert)

Eggens

EHCo (Eggens)

Elgin

Elk

Elwood

EPENCO (Eagle Pen Co.)

Esterbrook

Evans

Ever-Ready (Eclipse)

Ever Rite

Eversharp

(E.) Faber (Eberhard Faber)

Fabergé

Falcon (Beaumel)

Federal

Finerpointe

Fisher (Fisher Space Pen Company)

Fount Pencil

Fount-O-Ink

Ford’s (Cromer Artcraft Pen Company)

Franklin

Franklin-Christoph

Franklin Mint

Gem

Gimbel

Gisi

Gold Bond

Gold Crown

Gold Medal

Gold Relief (Esterbrook)

Golden Rule

Goldin Atlantic (USA? UK? Italy? China?)

Good

Graphic (Beaumel)

Grieshaber

Harvard

Hawaiian (Sheaffer)

Heath

Henrik Wigstrom

Hicks

Hintz

Hoover

Houston

Hutcheon

Imperial

Improved Special

Indepedent

Indian

Ingersoll

Ink-D-Cator (Inkograph)

Ink-O-Graph

Invicta (of Hollywood)

J Harris & Co.

Jackson

Jackwin (Eclipse)

Jaxon

Jefferson

JG Rider

Jiffy

John Hancock (Pollock Pen)

John Holland

Juco

Justrite

Kant

Keene

Kegrize

Keystock (Eclipse)

Keystone (Soper & Sievewright)

Keystone (David Khan Inc.)

Kraker

Kritzler

Krone

Lady Dainty (Aikin Lambert)

Lady Spors

Lakeside

Lancaster

Laughlin

Leboeuf

Leeds

Le Ritzi

Levenger

C.E. (Cameron) Levi

Libelle

Liberty

Lifetime (brand, not Sheaffer model)

Lincoln (A.A. Waterman)

Lincoln Pen

Lipic

Loiminchay (Patrick Chu New York)

Lucas

Mabie

Mackinnon

Majestic

Manhattan (Salz Brothers)

Margie (Eclipse)

Mari Jane (Eclipse)

Marathon

Marlin

Marlowe

Marxton (Eclipse)

May

Mckenzie

Mercantile (Aikin Lambert)

Michel Perchin (Renaissance Pen Co. Saint Louis)

Monarch

Monogram

Monroe

Mooney

Moore (American Fountain Pen Co.)

Moore (Moore Pen Company)

Molteni

Montgomery Ward (Eclipse)

Monteverde

Morgan Pens

Morrison

Morton

National

Nassau

Nemosine

New Lincoln

New Yorker (Cromer Artcraft Pen Company)

Newman Pens

Newton Pens

Nidor

Nistiiv Pens

Noodlers

Noxall

Onward (David Khan Inc.)

(David) Oscarson

Ottowa Products Pen (Conklin)

Pacific (David Khan)

Packard

Pan (Salz Brothers)

Parco (Parker

Paris Pen

Parker

Parkette (Parker)

Park row (Eclipse)

Parkston (Eclipse)

Paul E. Wirt

Partner

Penanink (David Khan Inc.)

Penman

Pennant (David Khan Inc.)

Penselpen

Perfection (Holland)

Perry

Peter Pan (Salz Brothers)

Phenix (Paul Esterly Wirt)

Pick

Pioneer (David Khan Inc.)

Pollock Pen

Post

Postal

Postal Pen

Premier

Presto

Prosperity Pens NYC

Protector (Diamond Point)

Radium

Raven (Beaumel)

Red Top (Salz Brothers)

Red Fellow (Peerless Pen Corp.)

Redipoint (Peerless Pen Corp.)

Relief (Esterbrook)

Remex (David Khan Inc.)

Remington

Renaissance

Rentz

Resevo (A.A. Waterman)

Resevo (Chicago Safety Pen Co.)

Retro 51 (or Retro51)

Reuther (Reuther Pen Company)

Rexall

Ries

Rival (Beaumel)

Robus

Romet

Rosetta

Roxy (Morrison)

Royal (Holland)

Ruyter

Safety (Eclipse)

Sager

Saltz Bros

Schnell's Schoolhouse (Gem)

Schrade

Scratch (Gem)

Scripto

Seberlee (Eclipse)

Secretary (Newark Pen Co.)

Secretary (Secretary Pen Co.)

Security (Securograph Pen Co.)

Security (Security Pen Corp.)

Sensa

Servo (Moore)

Sheaffer

Shipman`s

Shirley Temple (David Khan Inc.)

Simpson

Skidmore

Smith

Snapfil

Southern (Petersburg, Virginia)

S.S.S.

Standard

Star

Sterling

Stratford

Supremacy

(Duncan) Suss

Swan (Mabie Todd & Co.)

T.C. Tanke

Taccia

Ten Years Pen

(Chris) Thompson

Tiffany

Todd

Toledo

Tower

Tracy

Triad

Tri-Fil (Moore)

Trouble Proof (Gem)

Trupoint

T Tuckersharpe

Tully (Eclipse)

Twinpoint

Ultra

Umpire (Grieshaber)

Underwood

Union (Morrison)

Universal

University (Sheaffer)

Vaku-um (Moore)

Varsity

Vasa

Venus

Victor

Viseon Duplo

Vogue (David Khan Inc.)

VTC (Victorian Trading Company)

Vulcan

Vulcanite

Wahl

Wahl-Eversharp

Wardrite

Waltham

Wasp

Waterman

Wearever (David Khan Inc.)

Wawco

Webster

Webster Pen

Weidlich

Welsh

Welsharp

Welty

Wilcox

William Henry

Williamson

Wilrite

WB Wilson

Winchester

Wirt (Paul E. Wirt)

Wirt (BF Maize and Robert H. Knoors)

Writefine (Parker)

WN Bolles

Xezo

xFountainpens

Yankee (Michael George Co.)

Yankee (Kraker Pen Co.)

Yankee Pen (Minneapolis Pen Co.)

Zain

Zenith (David Khan Inc.)

 

BPs, Pencils, Dip pens:

Apollo

Frawley Pen Company

Gillette

Hunt

Krink

Newell Rubbermaid

PaperMate

Sanford L.P.

Speedball

[BamaPen]

Four missing brands:

 

Artcraft, made by the Cromer Artcraft Pen Company (later renamed Artcraft Pen Company) of Birmingham, Alabama between 1920 and 1934

 

Ford's (not Ford) also made by the company above. To the best of my knowledge, the only Ford (without the 's) brand fountain pen was made in the UK.

 

New Yorker, also made by the company above

 

Reuther, made by (or for) the Reuther Pen Company of Decatur, Alabama. The company was only in business for a short while around 1922.

Edited December 22, 2014 by BamaPen

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Thank you!

 

Updated and corrected.

Warm regards, Wim

[TXKat]

A few more brands that I have to go back and re-research for definitive information on who made them. They are NOT major brands, thus, may not be included because of how inexpensive they were??

 

Lifetime (brand, not the Sheaffer Lifetime)

Pacific (David Khan)

Le Ritzy (it's a very small pen)

American (not sure All American is the same brand)

Cascade

 

Ehco should be EHCo

 

Thank you for creating these lists!!! It's wonderful to have!

 

I shall report back with info on the above brands, when I can find it.

[inkstainedruth]

Anyone know about a brand that *might* be called "U.S.A."? That's what it said on the cap clip on a 51 Vac I sumgai'd over the fall. I also saw a pen/pencil set with the same type of cap more recently.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

Edited January 14, 2015 by inkstainedruth

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BIC is missing

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Thank you all, just updated the brand listing.

 

Warm regards, Wim

[gweimer1]

I just found this page while trying to find information on the Thompson pen I have. This is from a Druggist's Directory, and lists several manufacturers (including location), and has a few not currently in this list.

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=j6TtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA306&lpg=PA306&dq=Thompson+autofiller+pen&source=bl&ots=o46s6cpwPb&sig=bpve3TDtyLirwvmlwm9mQRukuyo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SREtVeCkEYKngwTFr4CgAQ&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Thompson%20autofiller%20pen&f=false

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I just found this page while trying to find information on the Thompson pen I have. This is from a Druggist's Directory, and lists several manufacturers (including location), and has a few not currently in this list.

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=j6TtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA306&lpg=PA306&dq=Thompson+autofiller+pen&source=bl&ots=o46s6cpwPb&sig=bpve3TDtyLirwvmlwm9mQRukuyo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SREtVeCkEYKngwTFr4CgAQ&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Thompson%20autofiller%20pen&f=false

 

Thank you very much gweimer1.

 

Just one question: I do not have enough time to go and search through a book like that, and would really appreciate it if you could add the pens/pen brands you found here in this topic.

 

Thank you very much in advance.

 

Warm regards, Wim

[MarcShiman]

Great list. We need to keep it updated as we gain knowledge.

 

A few suggestions:

 

There is Bankers Pen Company (Julius Schnell), and there was a Banker and New Banker pen which weren't related (much lower end)

Newark Pen Company deserves its own - its brands were Secretary, Accountant, Congress, and Newark Pen. I'm not sure I'd call Secretary a "brand" - its sort of the same as Duofold or Vacumatic.

Diamond Point pens are also marked New Diamond Point and Diamond PP

If you include Swan as a brand, you should include Swallow

There's another Thompson from flattop era (mid-20's)

Gaydoul

Hamilton

Camel was a different company than Newark, although they shared a significant shareholder

Hudson

Everlast

Edward Todd

Diamond Medal (Sears)

Fourway (Cameleon)

 

some attribution:

Majestic, Ambassador, and University (different than Sheaffer's) were all J Harris brands

Collegiate is a Diamond Point Brand

Monroe is Eclipse

Webster and Lakeside (I think) are Sears

Nassau and Marathon are Morrison

 

Lot of confusion over Union, Kritzler, and Morton and Salz and Morrison. Who made who isn't clear.

 

I'll go over my notes and find more.

Edited January 3, 2016 by MarcShiman

[craigs63]

Padrino, made by or for Paradise Pen (now discontinued). I assume these fall under the USA / North America category (no idea where they were made). I just got the "Trend" model, other models I've seen mentioned include Premier, Demo, Classico, Breve, Styb.

[rminj]

List seems to be of past pen manufacturers?

 

Some modern usa pen makers of fountain pens;

Frank Christoph

Karaskustoms

Tactile Turn

Michaels Fatboy

[timarti]

I have a Byers & Hayes black rubber lever filler with a flex nib from the 1920s. Has #4 14k gold nib. Writes medium to double broad. Don't see them in the list. Photo from peytonstreetpens.com where I bought it.

 

As per richardspens.com about the company.

 

(Byers & Hayes Company, Inc., also B&H) A fountain pen and pencil manufacturing company located in New York City; founded in 1916 by John E. Hayes, formerly manager at Aikin Lambert, and George T. Byers, a New York manufacturer of fountain pens and pencils. Products included gold and silver pencils, eyedropper-filling and self-filling fountain pens, clips, and a variety of novelties such as toothpicks. Pen models included a rifle cartridge-styled pen (similar to the Salz Army-Navy pen shown at bullet pen). The company also jobbed pens and parts, with or without custom imprinting, and did chasing work for other manufacturers. The company appears to have survived into the 1930s.

[shalitha33]

I have an eyedropper pen marked as Remex" with Remex N.Y marked on the nib. This pen is of a comparable size to a Waterman 12 but has a much smaller nib and feed.

 

[gregamckinney]

I have an eyedropper pen marked as Remex" with Remex N.Y marked on the nib. This pen is of a comparable size to a Waterman 12 but has a much smaller nib and feed.

 

IMG_1823-remex.jpg

 

Remex was a Waterman sub-brand. Are we tracking sub-brands too?

[gregamckinney]

Also adding de Fon, a Los Angeles maker

[rutherfordr]

How about the Herbert Pen Company in Richmond, VA?

 

https://www.herbertpencompany.com/

[shalitha33]

couple of old pen makers from late 1890s.

 

 

Scott Pen

Pat. July 30.89.

 

The Write-Right pen (under feed, vent less nib)

John folly jr. N.Y.

 

Queen (over feed)

James W. Queen & Co, 924 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.

 

I don't have a complete example of the Scott pen and cant find any information to make sure they are american . i am making a guess based on where i got it from.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GlenV]

You have amazing pens from the early years shalitha33, really cool. Since John Foley was one of the first iridium tipped gold pen manufacturer in the US, should have been on the list. Is your main interest in early pen manufacture?