Object Details
- L.E. Waterman Company
- Description
- Lewis Waterman established the Waterman Pen Co. and received his first pen related patent in 1884. Early Waterman pens had barrels and caps of hard rubber. In the 1940s, the firm introduced pens made of Forticel, a plastic produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. This example is of that type.
- Ref: Ad for Waterman ball-point pens in [Washington] Evening Star (Feb. 16, 1949), p. A-15.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Celanese Plastics Company
- ID Number
- CH.334330.129
- accession number
- 310799
- catalog number
- 334330.129
- Object Name
- Fountain Pen
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 1.3 cm; 5 1/8 in x 1/2 in
- overall: 5 in x 1/2 in; 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_2816
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e55e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
