The Esterbrook Pen Company is a former American manufacturing company founded by English immigrant Richard Esterbrook and based in Camden, New Jersey. It was the largest pen manufacturer in the United
The Esterbrook Pens Co. plant stood at Cooper Street and Delaware Avenue in Camden, New Jersey, c. 1920
Richard Esterbrook, founder
The "Lincoln Pen", packaging, 1866
1866 card featuring the 066 "Falcon Pen"
A dip pen is a writing instrument used to apply ink to paper by dipping into an inkwell. Dip pens usually consist of a metal nib with a central slit that acts as a capillary channel like those of foun
Esterbrook
…Jersey. It was the largest pen manufacturer in the United States, having reached a record of producing 216,000,000 pens a year. The company produced dip pens, then concentrating on fountain pens until it was acquired by Venus Pencils in 1967, ceasing activities in 1971. In 2014, Harpen Brand Holdings, LLC…
"Mail" pen by C. Brandauer & Co.
A metal dip pen, glass dip pen, and pen holder along with an assortment of metal nibs.
"New invented gold, silver, and steel pens". Ad published in The Times, 1792
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and Princess Alexandra at Gillott's Victoria Works, 1874