Conklin
6 items in stock, $49.99 to $1,499.99.
What “Conklin” means here
Conklin of Toledo, Ohio invented the crescent filler in 1898, the pen Mark Twain endorsed, and followed it with the Endura in 1924. His bench post on restoring a Conklin Crescent is the one to read before touching a hard rubber pen.
From Drippy Musings
Resurrecting Vintage Pen Brands
When I first started ThePenMarket.com, I also worked part-time at a brick-and-mortar pen shop in a mall. I was far more familiar with vintage pens than modern, and I was very excited to see that the Conklin Pen Company had been brought back to life at around the same time. I had no idea who…
Was Mark Twain the First Pen Pitchman?
American author Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, was the spokesman for the Conklin Pen Company in 1903. Samuel Clemens, better known to lovers of classic American literature as Mark Twain, was possibly the first famous person used to sell a specific make and model of pen. Twain was the writer…
How Do I Restore a Conklin Crescent
We are by no means done with the Decameron 2020 Project. However, I felt like getting back to pens for a posting. If you’ve been mostly coming for the storytelling, who knows, maybe you’ll get a kick out of a deeper dive into old fountain pens. Here is a Conklin Crescent 2NL fountain pen in…