"Brian Ketterling"
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LarryW wrote:

I keep wondering if the pen I am thinking of, I am confusing for
something else. I cetainly remember the name Wearever. It may be
the
other that cost a whole dollar. Maybe the 29¢ paper cutter has a
different name that eludes my mind. The pen you describe closely
resembles the dollar pen I often could not afford to replace. Any
ideas [names] of some popular cheapo brands sold from early to mid
50's?

I'm not sure, right off the bat. Wearever was kind of the "American
BiC" of
fountain pens -- they cranked out millions of pens, and they were
inexpensive. They very well could have made pens like you
described, that
I'm just not aware of. All of the lower-range Renew-Points that
Esterbrook
put on their pens were either untipped (like their "flexible" #2048)
or had
folded tips, but Esterbrooks are pretty good pens (and they made a
"Dollar
Pen"). I don't know... maybe I'll stumble across a reference to a
29¢ pen.

BTW:
If you check out the nib tip, you will notice the absence
of sodder.

No one, to the best of my knowledge, ever tipped a pen with
solder... or was
that just an offhand term?

Brian
--

What I was trying to say was "soldered with irridium." I recall
Esterbook as being a mid to higher range pen. Usually they were sold
as a 3 piece set. Never saw the stand-alone dollar version. It's hard
for me to think of any pen using irridium tips costing only 29¢ The
name "Eversharp" rings a bell though. -LarryW