Pen Collectors of America

Keeping The History of Writing Instruments Alive Through Member Support and Community Education

The PENnant
Summer 2006

 

Vol. XXIV, No.2
Summer 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

FEATURES:

  • Parker Pen Co. Part II: The Early Years in Fayette, Iowa
    by Len Provisor and Geoffrey S. Parker

  • Pens for Kids, Eastshore Elementary School, Irvine, California
    by Richard Kaufman

  • From Farm Boy to Nation's Scribe: A Palmer Method Retrospective
    by Kate Gladstone

  • The Mystery of Edward Todd
    by David Moak

  • Ink Color Trivia: Glorious! Green
    by Rhonda J. Foster
  • The Sheaffer Connaisseur 1985 - 1996
    by Dennis Bowden
  • Aurora After WWII, Part II
    by Giovanni Abrate
  • Taxonomy Late 1940's Sheaffer Models: 1947
    by Jim Mamoulides
  • The Sign
    by Jim Mamoulides

DEPARTMENTS:

  • Cryptopenology V: Myths of a Lifetime
    by Daniel Kirchheimer
  • The Book Worm: A Book Review
  • Tech Notes: The Cantor Lectures
    by Victor Chen

    From the Stacks
    by Dan Reppert

  • 2007 Board of Directors Nominees


IN BRIEF :

  • From the Editor

  • Snippets
  • Coming in the Next Issue of The Pennant