Ottawa Pen

[Gerry]

Does anyone have any info on the Ottawa Pen? I believe it may have been manufactured in Toledo, Ohio and may be an off brand of the Conklin co - but that's simply specuation.

 

Interested to see if I can scare up anything..

[George Cornwall]

Thanks for launching the call for information about the Ottawa Pen Company Gerry. While I have no additional information on the Company I want to offer to compile whatever information becomes available and put it in the form of a short note on the "History of the Ottawa Pen".

 

When individuals google < Ottawa Pen > they frequently link to "The Ottawa Fountain Pen Society" (OFPS). Their inquiry comes directly to my inbox and I hope to be able to offer more information in the future than we have at present. The best I can do now is indicate that the Company seems to have been located in Toledo Ohio and is speculated to have been linked to the Conklin Pen Company.

 

Whatever information we can collect, will be posted here on the FPN as well as on the website of the OFPS as a 'public pen service'. ;-))

We can be found at: < http://ottawafountainpensociety.org/ >

George Cornwall, July 14, 2012

[Vintagepens]

Yes, Ottawa was a Conklin sub-brand. The reference is to a local Indian tribe. There's a suburb of Toledo called Ottawa Hills.

[rbrummer]

There's one on eBay at the moment, since I don't know anything about the brand I can't offer any comment:

 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ottawa-fountain-pen-/390440008904

[rwilsonedn]

Apparently the sub-brand lasted long enough to have several variants. I'm currently using an Ottawa that is quite unlike the pen in the eBay posting. Mine is a black polished hard-rubber cylindrical lever-filler, with shallow conical ends rather than perfectly flat ends. It is unmarked except for "Ottawa" in script on the clip. The clip and the single cap band are gold-washed. The feed is smooth-bottomed, similar to the one in the eBay posting, but without the curious indents on the sides. The nib is a typical Signature 6 gold-washed steel F. I'm guessing it is not original. Rather a nice writer, except for leaking a big drop now and then. I have to look into the integrity of the sac ...

ron

[Vintagepens]

"Ottawa" was a (sub)brand, not a model.

[BobR]

Gerry- You may remember that we had a brief conversation about Ottawa pens last year. Here is a photo of the one I purchased (from Ebay) a few years ago and--now very regretfully--sold. It had a flexible gold nib and truly beautiful celluloid.