Does Anyone Know Who Made This Pen Or When?

[MRMESQ]

I picked this up today for $8 at an antique store based strictly on it's look. The nib is forked, which I assume was caused by damage at some point. It does not seem to a fountain pen...anyway, if anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.

[RMN]

Picture shows not many details, but it looks like a dip-pen nib-holder with nib.

 

I learned to write with such a thing.

Basically it is wood with a metal ring at the end where you can slide a nib in.

 

You can't fill it, but the ink clings to the nib, you write a sentence and you have to dip it again, like you would with a paint brush.

Some of these nibs were made with a little cavern or other contraption that would hold more ink.

 

These nibs are still available, often in art0stores.

 

 

D.ick

[Ron Z]

Rotating the image 180 degrees would help. I find it hard to see things hanging from the ceiling when they are supposed to be flat on the table.

[RMN]

Probably the picture was the right way up for the OP. In many computers the imageviewer automatically corrects upside-down pics..

 

Alas the imageviewer in our boardsoftware does not have that function...

 

 

D.ick

[FarmBoy]

FEMA?

[Studio97]

There are scores of old companies that produced dip pen holders. For your pen holder if there is no name on it then it would be difficult to ID it. I have a collection of them and hundreds of antique nibs that go back to the mid 1800s to the 1940s. I use them for sketching.