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102 W 101st St NYC. Low to medium quality
fountain pens [with a couple of good ones thrown in]. They sold run off the
mill eyedropper pens, some with low quality overlays. They sold some very
boring lever fillers in hard rubber. The diminutive Peter Pan may be their
most collected pen. Some of their other models were the Black & White
[which was a black hard rubber pen with ivory end caps], the Conqueror and the
Red Top, which was a black pen with a red button on top. They also made a
666 pen. Salbro is also a marking they used on their pens. They made some
decent filigrees in the 1920s which basically were the same as the ones
being sold by Morrison and some others. In the 1930s they began using the
name "Stratford" on some of their pens. The Stratford name must have sounded
better than Salz and eventually they changed their name to the Stratford Pen
Co. It seems to have worked out for them, you will find more
Stratfords today than Salz pens. Stratford was located at 44 W 28th st in
NYC. Stratford sold a line of pens in the 30s and 40s that either were made
by Wearever or were made of parts supplied by Wearever. The similarities
cannot be denied. Stratford hit their high point in the 1940s with the
"Magnetic" fountain pen. This pen had the styling of a rocket ship with
tailfins and the inner cap was a magnet. The magnet pulled the cap down onto
the metal ring around the section and also locked it onto the metal piece on
the end of the barrel to post the cap. This was a great idea to prevent
cracked caps from posting. Their lower lines were named Conqueror and
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