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Esterbrook Pen Company

Esterbrook Pen CompanyEnglish, Founded 1856

Esterbrook Pens was created in 1856 by a Cornish Quaker, Richard Esterbrook. He was a stationer by trade and had seen in Britain the move from hand cut Quill pens to the steel nibs with their consequent advantages. He was also a wise businessman with an eye for opportunity and saw that there was no steel nib manufacturer in the U.S.A., a vast expanding potential market, and he therefore recruited 5 craftsmen from the John Mitchell factory in Newhall Street, Birmingham and set up operations in the town of Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.

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Signing Pen Used to Sign H.R. 4374
1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 97.2.1
Civil Rights Act Signing Pen
ca. 1964
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 2000.7
Limited Test Ban Treaty Signing Pen
1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.3795
Joint Resolution Kennedy Center Signing Pen
1950-1964
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.3940
Proclamation 3520 Signing Pen
1961-1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.3937
Equal Opportunity in Housing Signing Pen
1961-1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.3936
Trade Expansion Act Signing Pen
1961-1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.3934
Bond Bill Signing Pen
1960-1962
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.4041
Proclamation Against the Obstruction of Justice Signing Pen
1961-1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 63.3935
29 Bill Signing Pens
1955-1963
Esterbrook Pen Company
MO 2005.16.2.2a-cc
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