What is the most obscure FP brand that you can think of?

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Yet another installment of obscure FP brand that no one ever heard of:



Even after 400+ vintage pens, I still find a brand that I never heard of, like this pen. On the barrel it says Newport Safety. K.C. MO. PATENTD. And on the clip, it has a patent date sometime in the 1919.

So this pen is very old, as in 100 years old at least and I'm guessing it's made in Kansas City, Missouri.
The nib is clearly a replacement, because it's a Salz Bros 14K which is from New York.

Now, here's the good news. This nib, must be from one of the earliest Salz Bros production, probably about as old as the pen itself. And it's flexible, and I mean very high-quality flexible.

I don't like to use the term 'wet-noodle' because it's more problematic than useful, but this nib is one notch above what I'd call superflex which is not just about line variation, but the total experience of using the nib for flex writing.