I am a collector and historian of the steel dip pen, the heyday of which was from around 1830 to about 1930. I would like to introduce more people to the fun and variety of the vintage steel pen. I am not a calligrapher, nor do I collect the so-called "dream nibs" so desired by calligraphers. Instead, I am interested in the pens used by most people for everyday writing: letters, notes, ledgers and diaries.
I will be working my way through my extensive steel pen collection to demonstrate how many of these pens write. In the past, people would have written with many different styles of pen, but most would have their favorite. The vast majority of these everyday pens are unknown today, so hopefully my short videos might help to re-introduce them to the public.
For more information on steel pens, especially their history, please see the parent site to this one, thesteelpen.com/.
I always love History of everything in USA.l was a big fan of "History channel". Today New History channel is totally Worthless. Also,Waterman and Perker Fountain are iconic brands of US santionary products.Perker 51 with Hooded nib was a famous fountain pen across world. Today, Chinese Fountain brands like Jinhao,Hero etc.are domainating worldwide with budget friendly good quality products.
I suspect that the animation was done by the Jam Handy studio, whose animation department was headed by Max Fleischer, and included several former Fleischer Studio artists. In the 1920s, Fleischer had made several animated films about science & technology, using detailed drawings that made complex concepts easy to understand. These films covered the Theory of Relativity, telephones, and the Western Electric sound-on-film process. The technical animation in this film is in Fleischer's style.
I love the conical Triumph nibs. I have 2 Snorkels and a Touch Down with them. And one of my Snorkels has the rarest Triumph nib of all: the flexible Music Nib.
Why were they talking about companies delivering postwar pens at the beginning of the film? If this was made in 1943, they couldn’t possibly know when the war would end yet.
While remaining focused on wartime production, they wanted to assure their salespeople that things would get back to normal at some point. The war didn't even last 5 years, so while everyone changed for that period, they knew it wouldn't be forever.
Companies advertised their products to keep them in people's minds, and to remind them the company would maintain the products to keep on working until the war ended, and new products would be available. I have old beauty trade magazines full of ads like this, and tips for helping equipment stay in working order. After the War, there were very long waitlists for certain products, like cars and large appliances.
There are still quite a few fountain pens around from WWII and earlier. Many of them are still in use. Sheaffer pens were some of the best of the time and were very well-made.
Almost certainly. There could well have been steel pens imported into Russia, but they would have been uncommon, foreign goods. Most people would still have used quills. Russia was one of the largest suppliers of goose feathers used for making quills, so it makes sense that quills would stick around longer there. Mid-19th-century was also still a transition time even in England and France as people moved away from quills to steel pens.
@@AAAndrew Subbed as a thank you! I'm publishing a novel from Russian literature this year with illustrations. One of the illustrations is of a note with a quill, and I wasn't sure if it was historically accurate or not.
That's probably because: a: You don't learn visually or don't know how to (their movements are quite clear in how their strokes mark the paper to construct the letters) b: You expect cursive and especially elegant handwriting to instantly come to you the moment you see a video instead of practicing (it does take practice, and patience) c: You didn't see the video or something related to it I would recommend buying nibs, and pen holders. Speedball has a few good pens, but they're using an Esterbrook 314 Relief nib. You might need specialized and thicker paper, as conventional paper causes the ink to bleed through. You would also need a cleaner for the pen (hydrogen peroxide works well, water will rust your pen!) and ink. You could use water-based inks or India ink. Water-based are more flowy, and runny, while India is much thicker. Handwriting takes time, all skills do.
How can anyone give this a thumbs down? There are some lessons in this short film which consultants charge a fortune for these days! Very interesting to an open mind....but it's in black and white so it must be rubbish...yeah right!
... i have one ... and it design by itself--- its the best i have used till today... and i am 64 years old ....(sorry my inglish may be not the best ---)
@@AAAndrew yes true but I didn't quite catch that on the description initially, and i was a bit confused. I'm new into this world and i didn't quite found the word nib close by the Esterbrook 314 in the description that's why I wasn't sure and asked. Thank you for your kind reply! Nice video by the way!
I was right the first time, Leon Isaacs died in 1889. Judah Leon Isaacs joined with his brother Abraham Leon Isaacs (aka A.L. Isaacs) and the Leon's partner (and top salesman) Michael Voorsanger to continue Leon Isaacs & Co. until they sold the company to Turner & Harrison in 1900. AL went to work for Turner & Harrison as a salesman, and JL formed his own company. Voorsanger retired, and for a short time Turner & Harrison issued a small run of M. V. pens in honor of Voorsanger's long history with the pen industry, and almost legendary status among traveling pen salesmen.
Do you prefer the silent videos, or the ones with spoken commentary? For me, the sound of the scratch of the pen on paper is almost AMSR. Others may find it irritating.
Pierre Miller how does that work? I always thought people back then had more children like by Grandama had like 4 or 5 sisters and two brothers I think and she had pneumonia when she was little and back then doctors were still doing house calls and she had ran up a real high fever and to cool her down they held her out the window to lower her temperature and it worked lol
No offense but its a chisel, not a pry bar. The tempering in the steel is designed for its ability to hold an edge. I've seen a few good quality chisels ( Barr's, Henry Taylors and Sorbys) bite the dust because people use them as a pry bar. Just my 2 cents.
Mr. Klausz is a master, he's been working wood since he was little in his father's shop. Seeing him taking shots at the British way of doing things reminds me of the times Tage Frid and Ian Kirby went at each other in Fine Woodworking years ago. Fun to see different ways of doing a task and the passion that people have for their preferred methods.
