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Looking To Identify The Age Of 2 Paul E Wirt Pens


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I'm looking for some help to find the approx. year of manufacture for two Paul E Wirt fountain pens. Both pens are eyedropper filled and both have under-feeds, one with a 2-line imprint and the other with a 3-line.

 

 

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I have put in some dusting powder to high-lite the text written on both barrels.

 

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Two pens have slightly different feeds , the older pen has a curved feed that fits in to a slot inside the section. In this pen the feed can only go in on one orientation.

 

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Older pen unscrews from the middle of the grip section with parts of the grip pattern ending on both sides of the 2 parts.

 

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Any help in trying to find the approx age of these pens is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

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The three line imprint is for the vented underfeed, beginning in 1903. Otherwise, the pen could have been made well though the 19teens.

The two line imprint is earlier, but left over stock was used with the later feed. These are usually found with the paddle feed type overfeed and unvented Wirt nib.

 

The thinner underfeed is less common. Most of the underfeeds will be the ones that are round in the middle and can be inserted in any orientation.

 

So the two line imprint pen with the uncommon style underfeed is from withing a few years of 1903.

 

I wrote an overview of Paul Wirt pens for a recent Fountain Pen Journal. You could contact Paul Erano for a back issue.

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sadly I ended up braking the newer of the two feeds while switching nibs between the two wirt pens :(. Ended up braking it across the vent loop in to two .What would be a good place to start looking for parts for these old pens ?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

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Sadly there is not easy place to look. The pens are uncommon, but a plain black 3 line imprint pen is less "interesting" and would possibly serve as parts to a pen with nice chasing, gold bands, mottled hard rubber, etc. You are better off saving the nib and picking up a pen in need of a nib. But you never know. There could be a pen on ebay with no cap and no nib that could serve as parts.

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