Nib Notes:I suggest that you open this document in a second browser and place it alongside my list so you can see both at once. I'll be adding notes here from time to time--needed some place to keep them, and thought you might profit from them, too. As a matter of fact, if you have any comments, information, or anecdotes about any of the nibs in my collection, e.mail me and I can add them here--and give you credit, too, of course. -- They're numbered in the order they're added...

0001--M. L. LEMAN 116 WILLIAM ST. NEW YORK. --Taken from an EBAY offering of a wooden pen holder and nib--this was stamped into the wooden handle of the pen staff. Still don't know who this guy was, but now we know where his company was in NY...

0002--Spencerian Pen Co.

0003--Braham's Patent Pens " See the Point" Pat. Nov. 6, 1894--May 14, 1895 The Braham's Pen Co., Cincinnati, O USA--this info (also see note 0004) was sent April 1998 by Ms. Judy Walker, Indiana NIBbler, copied from a blue Branham's box in her collection. Now we have a couple of patent dates and a city--I know John Holland Pen Manufacturing was there--did Holland make Braham's pens, or was Braham a manufacturer himself?

0004--R. Esterbrook & Co. Philadelphia FALCON 95 John Street, New York--this info (also see note 0003) was sent April 1998 by Ms. Judy Walker, Indiana NIBbler, copied from an E'brook box--this is the first I knew that E'brook factory had moved to Philadelphia from Camden, NJ, and the John Street NY headquarters address is different from the old #26, too--anybody know when the change took place? I know from a 1927 E'brook ad that Camden and #26 were still the addresses then...

0005--Miller Brothers: "Notice to Dealers and Consumers. Our pens are manufactured of the finest quality of steel, and by the most skillful artists the trade can produce. Each pen is examined with the greatest care. Every pen of our make is stamped in full, "THE MILLER Bros. CUTLERY Co's," and each box bears a fac-simile of our signature, [K.S. Miller Bros. Cutlery Co.] Manufactory, Meriden, Conn.--copied from a gif of the back of an unopened box of Miller Bros. nibs on sale at EBAY. So now we know the where, and that it was a manufactory! And I think the initials are K.S., but it could be R.S.--hard to read the cursive. Further, it says that each nib is marked "in full"--and only one of my many MB nibs is so marked. All the rest just say "MILLER BROS". Are these latter not the real thing?

0006--L. V. Oosten, 1337 Kerlerec St., New Orleans, La.--this taken from the back of one of my Oosten's nib boxes. I was reminded of it by the gif of the Millers Bros. box above (see note 0005), which is the exact same color of box, with the same black seal with gold trim and letters. The Miller's box declares that MB was a manufactory, but the Oosten's box does not. Then did MB make Oosten's pens?