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I 1970-71 I used to both write for and sit on the editorial board of a local fourtnighly Urdu language magazine - in Faisalbad (the then Lylpur) - the copy of which would be written by caligraphers / Katibs on buttor paper using dip pens. A couple of the caligraphers working for the magazine had colections of very beautiful silver as well gold color bodied dip pens. It was fascinating to see them writing with such a speed and with hardly any mistakes. All is gone now. Feeling nostalgic I took a journey from the Capital - Islamabad where I reside now - to Faisalabad and visited the office of the magazine a fews years ago especially to ask about the fate of those caligraphers but I found none among the staff who may know anything about them. Technology has played great role in kind of disconnet from our glorious past.

 

Sorry to the OP as I am clueless about his pen.

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I'd hazard a guess and say that the brand "E Faber" might be related/connected to Faber-Castell. But beyond that, sorry, no clue.

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E. Faber / Eberhart Faber had nothing to do with Faber-Castell. I do have wooden dip pens from them, bought in Germany.

I was under an impression it was a NY company.....but then can't explain why I have so many wooden dip pens from them in Germany, other than they may have been international.

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E. Faber / Eberhart Faber had nothing to do with Faber-Castell. I do have wooden dip pens from them, bought in Germany.

I was under an impression it was a NY company.....but then can't explain why I have so many wooden dip pens from them in Germany, other than they may have been international.

Not entirely true. It's all the same family. All three Faber companies. But they were fierce competitors in the old days.

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E. Faber / Eberhart Faber had nothing to do with Faber-Castell. I do have wooden dip pens from them, bought in Germany.

I was under an impression it was a NY company.....but then can't explain why I have so many wooden dip pens from them in Germany, other than they may have been international.

 

Eberhard Faber was a US pencil company in Brooklyn, NY, maker of the famous Mongol pencils and the Blackwing ("Half the pressure - Twice the speed"). They were founded by a member of the German pencil-making Faber family, who owned what became Faber-Castell pencils. Eberhard-Faber was seperate, and, as Astron mentions, E-F and F-C competed fiercely. For details, see "The Pencil", by Henry Petroski.

 

Just to make "pencil-spotting" confusing, in the mid-90s, Faber-Castell bought Eberhard-Faber, part of a process by which F-C also bought Venus ("Velvet") and Berol ("Mirado"). In the late, '60s, by the way, Venus had merged with Esterbrook. That's when Esterbrook moved from Camden, NJ to Cherry Hill, and the Esterbrook corporate records ended up in a town dump.

 

By about 2000, Newell Rubbermaid had bought Faber-Castell, which is how the conglomerate came to own the rights to the Esterbrook name. They used it for a line of "magic markers" in Latin America.

 

"E Faber" might have been an Eberhard Faber product. It would have fit as another writing product. (However, it might have been the trade-mark of yet about member of the writing Faber family!)

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Adding to the Faber trivia fest: Faber-Castell, along with Staedtler, Rotring and Koh-I-Noor, was a major supplier of drafting pencils and pens in the middle to late 20th Century.

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I think we’ve succeeded in thoroughly muddying the waters, but it looks like a cool old pen that could be a lot of fun with some fresh nibs.

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I 1970-71 I used to both write for and sit on the editorial board of a local fourtnighly Urdu language magazine - in Faisalbad (the then Lylpur) - the copy of which would be written by caligraphers / Katibs on buttor paper using dip pens. A couple of the caligraphers working for the magazine had colections of very beautiful silver as well gold color bodied dip pens. It was fascinating to see them writing with such a speed and with hardly any mistakes. All is gone now. Feeling nostalgic I took a journey from the Capital - Islamabad where I reside now - to Faisalabad and visited the office of the magazine a fews years ago especially to ask about the fate of those caligraphers but I found none among the staff who may know anything about them. Technology has played great role in kind of disconnet from our glorious past.

 

Sorry to the OP as I am clueless about his pen.

 

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I'm glad there are stubborn people in the world like that newspaper and it's 27,000 readers.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

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There was a thread a while back about not restoring pens and leaving them to show their age, I got a lot of stick for that thread and the majority of people said that they wanted their pens to look like they were made yesterday and I didnt know what I was talking about.

 

Perhaps this pen is a candidate to leave it as it is?

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There was a thread a while back about not restoring pens and leaving them to show their age, I got a lot of stick for that thread and the majority of people said that they wanted their pens to look like they were made yesterday and I didnt know what I was talking about.

 

Perhaps this pen is a candidate to leave it as it is?

 

I would agree, it's got a lovely color to it.

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It's a traveling pen. As you've figured out, when you want to carry it in your pocket, you slide the section with the nib inside the handle and the nib is protected. You want to write, you pull it out, turn it around and stick it into the holder with the nib out to make a nice pen.

 

Yes, it's Eberhard Faber, and if I had to guess, I'd say 1880's to 1910 or so. That looks like a Tedella nib. As far as I can find, Tadella was an independent company and made their pens in Minneapolis until sometime between 1891 when I find them as still listed by themselves, and 1900, by which time they were owned by Turner & Harrison.

 

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It's a traveling pen. As you've figured out, when you want to carry it in your pocket, you slide the section with the nib inside the handle and the nib is protected. You want to write, you pull it out, turn it around and stick it into the holder with the nib out to make a nice pen.

 

 

I agree that it is a traveling pen. I have a similar pen, although made by Dixon (also known for pencil making). Mine is different in that the other end of the barrel conceals a wooden pencil, and the section with the nib has an eraser, A very clever design IMHO.

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There was a thread a while back about not restoring pens and leaving them to show their age, I got a lot of stick for that thread and the majority of people said that they wanted their pens to look like they were made yesterday and I didnt know what I was talking about.

 

Perhaps this pen is a candidate to leave it as it is?

 

I once volunteer work for an archaeologist in my student days, and I think his professional opinion regarding these are most insightful. During the summer I working with him ( together with several other volunteer and intern ) He did teach us the basic motto about preserving artifacts. What he basically said is " We try to preserve them as possible as we can to the original state it came in, but on the condition that it would not further deteriorate. If such process is occurring then its our job to made repair, restoration, and made it so that we can halt this deterioration and keep the artifact as close to its original state as possible"

 

I think he got a point ; luckily for us interns and volunteers we mostly work on pottery fragments, and these usually only require a simple wash and rinse

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