Source-backed fountain pen identification
Identify the fountain pen.
Keep the paper trail.
Browse model records and use conservative identification tools built from maker archives, period documents, named references, and visible unknowns.
Curator’s rule № 01 If a fact cannot be traced, it does not enter the register.
- Verified families
- 100
- Documented variants
- 26
- Evidence entries
- 218
- Public price data
- Held
Start with the current identification priorities
Eight useful ways into the register.
These source-backed records cover the Register's current identification priorities. Each opens a permanent folio with citations beside the facts it supports. The complete 100-family register follows.
Browse the complete registerThe recognized core · First folios
A working register,
not a content pile.
Records are arranged by maker, supported at field level, and honest about what remains unknown. Open a folio to inspect the dated source trail.
Aurora
6 folios
LAMY
12 folios
Montblanc
7 folios
Parker
10 folios
Pelikan
14 folios
Pilot
6 folios
Platinum
6 folios
Sailor
10 folios
Sheaffer
6 folios
Wahl-Eversharp
3 folios
Waterman
20 folios
No verified folio matches that lookup.
Permission before publication
The blank chart is
part of the record.
Historical prices stay withheld until a source grants the exact rights needed for retention, public aggregates, derivative statistics, and commercial use. Access alone is never entered as permission.
Opening the permission ledger…
Four promises on every future chart
Show the evidence.
Name the limits.
A chart is not trustworthy because it is polished. It is trustworthy when another collector can see what supports it—and what does not.
- ⅠSource class
State where every observation came from.
- ⅡSample size
Return “insufficient data” when the evidence is thin.
- ⅢCovered dates
Name the exact period represented—never an implied one.
- ⅣFreshness
Keep the last update and any interruption in view.