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About this book

The Esterbrook Pen Manufacturing Company was the great American pen maker — and Drawlet Pens (1925) is its catalog of the lettering and drawing pens the trade actually used. Drawlet pens and nibs were the working tools of show-card writers, letterers, illustrators, and draftsmen: the dip pens that put the fine lines, shaded strokes, and display lettering on cards, signs, and drawings.

As a 1925 trade catalog it documents the penman's toolkit at the height of the steel-pen era — the nib shapes for round hand and shaded script, the holders, and the specialized points for lettering and drawing work. For the modern calligrapher and lettering artist it is a guide to the historic nibs worth hunting down: the shapes and numbers that made the old hands possible. The catalog also records the numbering and grading systems the trade used to reorder — the shorthand by which a letterer could replace a worn favorite with its exact twin. For anyone restoring a vintage lettering kit or assembling a period-correct set of tools, it is the authoritative shopping list.

It is also a small, vivid document of the American pen industry in the 1920s, when Esterbrook's name was on every penman's desk — of interest to collectors of pens, trade catalogs, and writing ephemera.

For calligraphers, lettering artists, dip-pen enthusiasts, pen collectors, and students of the lettering trades. The 1925 catalog of the letterer's pens.

Details: 6×9" paperback, black and white interior, cream paper.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1925 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1925 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1925 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.