HP Day never sold fountain pens but they did make complete pencils
and sold fountain pen barrels and caps to many companies such as
Waterman and even Wirt. The company was started by Austin G Day back
in the 1840s. His early business was based on obtaining
Goodyear's rights to hard rubber production. In 1872 the company was
turned over to his brothers Henry P and Edmund and the name was
changed to HP and E Day. . Eventually
Waterman had such faith in their product that they bought the company only
to find out that plastic [celluloid] would soon make hard rubber pen parts obsolete.
Their line of colored ripple rods would give hard rubber pens a last
gasp at a time when celluloid was sweeping the pen industry.
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1000s of factory original dials for Benrus watches of the 1940s,
50s, 60s & 70s Paul Wirt Fountain Pens
-History & Information about this early "Father of Fountain Pens"
