We've filled a wide variety of vintage dip pen nib boxes with antique nibs. This larger assortment includes 50 different antique nibs. All are new old stock, never used and in perfect condition. A wide variety of points that will fit most of the standard dip pen holders. The new assortment is packed in a vintage dip pen nib box, the boxes are all different, too!

We've filled a variety of ink bottles, some old and some new with an assortment of vintage steel dip pen nibs. Each bottle is filled with nibs inside and the value of the nibs alone is between $30 - $50. Use the nibs in your dip pen or just enjoy the vintage appeal of these old nibs in a cool looking ink bottle on your desk. They're even heavy enough to use as a paperweight. Assorted style ink bottles, let us select one for you!

Assortment of 5 different gold plated antique dip pen nibs. Nibs are new old stock, un-used and in mint condition.

Assortment of 10 different nibs suitable for copperplate and ornamental style writing. Extra fine, very flexible points. Assortment of nibs included will vary.

CPNIBS

Copperplate Nib Assortment

$20

The Spencerian Steel Pen Pen Co. was formed In 1858 as a subsidiary of the publisher Ivison Phinney Publishing Company and evolved in 1869 to Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. The NYC company, served as a pen distribution company. They purchased nibs from an English manufacturer, having no factories of its own. The Spencerian pens were made in Birmingham by Sir Josiah Mason for Perry & Co.

Assortment of 5 different antique Spencerian dip pen nibs includes:

• No.  2   Counting House, flexible fine point, grey steel
• No.  23   Falcon Pen, general purpose slightly flexible, bright silver steel
• No.  30   Bronze Falcon, general writing point slightly flexible, bronze steel
• No.  42   Dome Pointed Pen, firm fine point, grey steel
• No.  44   Invincible Dome-Point, firm fine point, large size, grey steel

A.N. Palmer was one of the most significant contributors to the American System of writing! Palmer was born in 1860 in NY. He attended Gaskell's Business College, a penmanship school. Palmer discovered the "muscular movement" of handwriting and in 1884 published the first Western Penman magazine. He maintained offices in New York; Chicago; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and in Portland, Maine. At the time of his death in 1927 over 25 million Americans had learned the Palmer Method of Penmanship.

Assortment of 5 different antique Palmer dip pen nibs includes:

• No.  5   Method Slightly flexible medium point, grey steel
• No.  6   Method Slightly flexible fine point, grey steel
• No.  7   Method Firm fine point, grey steel
• No.  8   Method Firm medium point, grey steel
• No.  9   Method Very flexible fine point, grey steel

Esterbrook Pens was created in 1856 by Robert Esterbrook and was the first company in the United States to make steel pen nibs. The company was originally called the United States Steel Pen Manufacturing Company, and the name was later changed to The Esterbrook Steel Pen Manufacturing Company. The company's success was largely due to the quality of the steel nibs. The nibs were versatile, long lasting, and were available in many different styles. The company was later launched in England as well. The last name the dip pens nibs were manufactured under was The Esterbrook Pen Company. In 1967, The Esterbrook Pen Company was taken over by the Venus Pencil Company.

Assortment of ten different Esterbrook vintage steel pen nibs.
Includes one each of the following:

• No.  355   Art & Drafting, extra fine, extra flexible
• No.  314   Relief, 7 degree left oblique
• No.  787   Oval point, firm, fine
• No.  442   Jackson Stub, firm medium stub
• No.  239   Chancellor Pen, firm broad
• No.  570   School Pen, medium firm
• No.  805   Oval Point, medium
• No.  912   Radio Pen, medium stub
• No.  910   Radio Pen, firm fine
• No. 1000  School, firm fine

The C. Howard Hunt Pen company was formed in 1899 in Camden, New Jersey. Hunt invented the smooth gliding round pointed pen, which took about 15 different steps to make. The factory was moved to Statesville, NC in 1958. One of the more famous nibs made by Hunt was The Speedball Pen, which could do thick and thin lines. Today, Hunt is still in business under the name Hunt Manufacturing Company, and sells many different office supply products.

An assortment of ten different Hunt vintage pen nibs manufactured in the US. Assortment includes:

• X-24 Silverine
• 4 Arrow round pointed
• 24 Ledger
• 21 Companion round pointed
• X-38 Silverine
• 97 Falcon round pointed
• X-67 Silverine
• X-515 Silverine
• 513 Bowl pointed
• B-2 Ross F George Speedball

PEN NIB SAMPLER!

For those of you who want to experiment with a dip pen and steel nib and may not be quite sure which point you like best, we suggest our pen nib sampler. An assortment of 10 different mint condition antique dip pen nibs.