Morrison Fountain
Pens
Morrison Fountain Pen Company
1547 Broadway
79 5th Ave.
NYC
Morrison was a pen company that made some great pens [and some not
so great ones]. Their flattop
and overlay pens of the 1920s were of good quality. Morrison did make
the mistake of resisting the change-over to celluloid pens. Their
filigree and overlay pens are almost identical to the ones sold by
Diamond Point and Kritzler. They made some nice oversize pens
in hard rubber and then celluloid. These pens resemble other pens of
the same period and Morrison never made anything exceptional or
truly unique.
Their military pen of the 1940s
was named "The Patriot" and had the logo of the branches of the US armed
forces applied to the angled top of the cap. These pens had a inferior
suction style filling system that is very difficult to repair.
They claimed that the all plastic filler was necessary because of the war
effort.
The
most common problem found on Morrison pens is a loose clip. While they appear to be
riveted they are in fact held on by 2 small nails pushed through the clip
and bent over inside the cap by the insertion of the inner cap. Most of
their pens of the 20s and 30s have these "riveted" clips, although
there are some with "Z" style clips.
After WWII they seemed to settle into making some low
end fountain pens and continued up to the 1950s. They also sold pens under
the "Union" and "Roxy" names. The Union pens seem to be from the 1920s + 30s
and the Roxy seem to be from the 40s and 50s.
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