Posts tagged vintage
Ink Sac Replacement Tutorial
My talented and kind friend Rob offered to show me how to re-sac a vintage Esterbrook using my…
The Sheaffer Cadet Tip Dip Fountain Pen
Inside this box is something I stumbled upon on Ebay. It contains a NOS (that’s New Old Stock)…
Vintage Parker 21 Review
Prior to acquiring the reproduction style pens known as the HERO from China, I purchased a Parker…
Esterbrook Pastel Pink Purse Pen
If I wasn’t such a fan of the vintage Esterbook pens, I don’t think I ever would have imagined…
A.W. Faber Pencils and Chalks Catalog Page
I kept going back to Present + Correctto admire this vintage advertising art of A.W. Faber pencils…
TOT Mini Stapler
My lovely husband found this little TOT stapler with a petite carrying case at a garage sale this weekend.
It’s in great shape with a box of coveted TOT 50 staples which will be freely distributed amongst my collection of other TOT staplers.
This will become my travel stapler since it had such a nice little plastic carrying case. Are staplers TSA-approved?
You may recall the megaton of vintage office supplies I got last week? Well… that wasn’t everything. In my opinion, I saved the best for last. In the bounty was not one but eight different advertising mechanical pencils all from Autopoint. Yep, the same company that is still in business making the beloved Twinpoint.
These little gems were all in mint condition and came from the same collection so they all feature Midwestern businesses. Each pencil advertises a bank, farm co-op or machinery company, much to my delight.
There are two sizes of pencil as well, the regular sized which is comparable in diameter to a hexagonal pencil and the jumbo which is a bit thicker and more similar to the size of a “manly” fountain pen.
Both sizes of pencil are still available through the Autopoint web site and cost $4.50 each. Replacement leads and erasers are also available if you happen upon any of these vintage gems that need a refill.
Vintage Office Supply Overdose
My husband’s friend was kind enough to pass along an enormous collection of vintage office supplies from her father and grandfather’s collection.
The Denver Post pencil, the fountain pen, ruler and letter opener belonged to her grandfather, Carl P. Stangel, who was an architect in Omaha, NE. Many of the other pieces came from her father who was a bookkeeper near Salina, KS.
This was such a massive haul, I’m going to have to save a few of the other pieces for a future post. Stay tuned!
A recent thrift score was this box of unused Ko-Rec-Type, typewriter printing error correction paper. The concept behind this material was to back space over to your mistype, insert this white paper into the typewriter, retype the mistyped characters, thereby “deleting” the original letters as the Ko-Rec-Type has white film that would cover your mistake.
Each sheet has little perforated segments of correction paper that can be used or removed as needed and each sheet is wrapped in a glossy sleeve with the same rad graphics on it that appear on the cover of the box. On the back of the wrap are the instructions for use. Crazy!
Link Love: All Write, all write!
(Links for images in the collage above are all listed in the links below)
Today’s Link Love is all writing instruments!
Pencils Links:
- Turn paper into pencils (via Office Supplies Junkie)
- Moleskine Highlighter Pencils (via NoteMaker)
- Gorgeous Vintage Pencils (via Present and Correct)
Pen Links:
- An interview with Michael Gutberlet of Kaweco (via Jet Pens)
- Einstein’s Penmanship (via Lito of Palimpsest/InkLinks)
- Lamy Nexx Review by Bryan Gushikawa (via Pen Addict)
- Pen Show Primer for First-Timers (via Anderson Pens)
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