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It is actually a two page invoice with paper and ink but no pens. I have invoices from 1912 and 1926, again mostly paper and ink.

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I love the style of the green bill head in the second picture. Would you consider posting a photo of just that artwork close up?

-- Joel -- "I collect expensive and time-consuming hobbies."

 

INK (noun): A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water,

chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

(from The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce)

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Neat old letter head. Thanks for sharing.

PELIKAN - Too many birds in the flock to count. My pen chest has proven to be a most fertile breeding ground.

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Also notice the beautiful handwriting on the 1912 invoice which gives this document a nice personal touch.

A stylish feature that was apparently gone by 1936 in the typewritten invoice.

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It is actually a two page invoice with paper and ink but no pens. I have invoices from 1912 and 1926, again mostly paper and ink.

 

Funny! I have a vintage letter from Parker to exactly the same adress...

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What's Up At Christof's: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/353841-whats-up-at-christofs/?p=2337615

 

 

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Thank you for the extra photos!

-- Joel -- "I collect expensive and time-consuming hobbies."

 

INK (noun): A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water,

chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

(from The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce)

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Since no one's mentioned it, what a beautiful blotter! Don't see many of those nowadays.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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I have a memory of my childhood where I saw on a pen store window, a Pelikan advertisement that consisted of a mobile glass bird similar to the one in this video, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Drinkend_vogeltje_video.ogv/Drinkend_vogeltje_video.ogv.240p.vp9.webm, except that it had the shape of pelican. It continuously dips the beak to drink water and returns back up.

Has anybody ever seen this store window Pelikan advertisement?

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Unfortunately I can't open the link you provided, sztainbok -- I keep getting an error message saying that there is no program on my laptop to open it in. So I can't look at it.

I've seen a couple of threads where images of Pelikan ads were included, but I don't have any of those. I just have a couple of the small ceramic pen stands (a metallic gold one, which has a number on the box which suggests it was an LE model), and a white one. I like the look of some of the big stands (with a hole through the beak for the pen to go) but they've always been too pricy. And I'd happily trade both the small ones away for a small blue glazed one -- I saw one at a table at my first or second pen show, but it wasn't for sale (just a decoration for the vendor's table; bought the gold glazed one as a sop for not being able to buy the blue one at another table).

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Unfortunately I can't open the link you provided, sztainbok -- I keep getting an error message saying that there is no program on my laptop to open it in. So I can't look at it.

I've seen a couple of threads where images of Pelikan ads were included, but I don't have any of those. I just have a couple of the small ceramic pen stands (a metallic gold one, which has a number on the box which suggests it was an LE model), and a white one. I like the look of some of the big stands (with a hole through the beak for the pen to go) but they've always been too pricy. And I'd happily trade both the small ones away for a small blue glazed one -- I saw one at a table at my first or second pen show, but it wasn't for sale (just a decoration for the vendor's table; bought the gold glazed one as a sop for not being able to buy the blue one at another table).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

'Tis a Glass Drinking Bird...below on YouTube.............

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Ah. I wondered if it was something like that....

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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