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Swan Acid Etched Sterling Packard Lamps Pen


Greenie

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(Repost of mine from elsewhere) I have a lot of Swan pens, but this is my first etched silver pen. Really minty hard rubber and chasing. Screw cap, dropper filled, with a cap imprint reminding the user to "Screw tightly" with arrows to indicate the direction. The "safety pen" dates to 1910 -1919, with the "screw tightly" notation probably on the earlier end of the date range. This also led me to look up the company and original owner. Packard was an early light bulb company bought by General Electric in 1911. Google digitized scans led me to references to RS Mitten at the 1908 and 1909 Chicago Electrical Shows at a booth featuring several products including Packard Lamps (founded by brothers, one of whom is the founder of the Packard automobile company).

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