Pen Collectors of America

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

The PENnant
Winter 2006

 

Vol. XXIV, No.3
Winter 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

FEATURES:

  • History of the Parker Pen Co. Part III
    by Len Provisor and Geoffrey S. Parker

  • Pens for Kids: Presentations About Pens
    by Ralph Stillwell

  • A Penman's Walk Through Downtown L.A.
    by Fred Krinke

  • Henry Fenenbock, The Amazing Man Behind Los Angeles' Swanee Pen Shop
    by Tom Zoss

  • Collecting Japanese Pens
    by Stan Klemanowicz
  • Creating a Make-i Pen
    by Andrew Curle
  • A Brief History of Writing
    by Tom Trelfall
  • Taxonomy: Late 1940s Sheaffer Models 1948
    by Jim Mamoulides

 

DEPARTMENTS:

  • Cryptopenology V: Myths of a Lifetime Part II
    by Daniel Kirchheimer

    Tech Notes: The Cantor Lectures
    by Victor Chen

    From the Stacks
    by Dan Reppert



IN BRIEF :

  • From the Editor

  • Snippets
  • Coming in the Next Issue of The Pennant