No, this is not a review of fountain pens manufactured by the Shanghai Hero Pen Company! 
My pen collecting has over the past several months tended to gravitate toward inexpensive vintage Celluloid pens from the 1930s and 1940s, particularly those manufactured by second- and third-tier U.S. companies. Besides looking very cool, many of them are quite nice writing instruments, and several have excellent flexible gold nibs.
I finally got them all together and managed to take some photos to share.
From left to right, the pens are:
1) Wearever (broken nib)
2) Congress (broken nib)
3) Parker Challenger(flex nib)
4) Eversharp Junior (flex nib)
5) Waterman Thorobred (flex nib)
6) Wasp Addipoint*
7) Wasp "The Clipper"*, green "circuit board" pattern
8) Vacuum*, gold "Lahn" pattern
9) Wasp* "The Clipper", silver "Lahn" pattern, flex nib
10) No Name, "Durium" steel semi-flex nib
* W.A. Sheaffer sub-brands
The two pens with broken nibs will eventually receive transplants and returned to service as soon as I get myself a knockout block.
If anyone has any interesting vintage Celluloid pens in their collection, please share some photos. I've found this to be an easy way to build a focused collection without a significant investment.
My pen collecting has over the past several months tended to gravitate toward inexpensive vintage Celluloid pens from the 1930s and 1940s, particularly those manufactured by second- and third-tier U.S. companies. Besides looking very cool, many of them are quite nice writing instruments, and several have excellent flexible gold nibs.
I finally got them all together and managed to take some photos to share.
From left to right, the pens are:
1) Wearever (broken nib)
2) Congress (broken nib)
3) Parker Challenger(flex nib)
4) Eversharp Junior (flex nib)
5) Waterman Thorobred (flex nib)
6) Wasp Addipoint*
7) Wasp "The Clipper"*, green "circuit board" pattern
8) Vacuum*, gold "Lahn" pattern
9) Wasp* "The Clipper", silver "Lahn" pattern, flex nib
10) No Name, "Durium" steel semi-flex nib
* W.A. Sheaffer sub-brands
The two pens with broken nibs will eventually receive transplants and returned to service as soon as I get myself a knockout block.
If anyone has any interesting vintage Celluloid pens in their collection, please share some photos. I've found this to be an easy way to build a focused collection without a significant investment.
