Conklin Pen Company

Toledo Ohio. Started around 1898 they made their mark with an early self filling pen that actually worked. Their Crescent fill pen was a bladder pen that used a small crescent shaped protrusion on the side of the barrel for filling. This pen carried the company for 2 decades. They followed this up with lever fillers which were hi quality but basically the same as the pens being sold by many different companies. Their next pen was the Nozac piston filling pens that are considered their high water mark of color and innovation. They were bought out by a Chicago pen company who sold junk pens and after selling off the remaining stock and using up all of the original parts, simply put the Conklin name on their own line of crappy pens. These Chicago pens should be avoided unless you just like them for what they are, cheap colorful pens with no real merits.

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