Is there a master chart of the major manufacturers and their sub brands that may be perused online?
Is there a master chart of the major manufacturers and their sub brands that may be perused online?
Are we talking Modern or Vintage, and which market (There's way too many to have a single place for all of them).
But if you mean modern, one of the big ones is going to be Yafa, they are the parent company of Monteverde, Conklin (modern reboot), 365, Marlen, Nava, Online Germany, Parafernalia, Penieder, Stipula, Diplomat, and Nettuno (and for personal reasons I avoid any child brand run by Yafa).
Or are you just looking for like a big list of all the notable brands to go after? In which case you can probably visit GouletPens, AndersonPens, CultPens, etc and check out their "Brand" listing to see most of the names.
thebenedictine (October 30th, 2018)
Jon Szanto (October 30th, 2018), KBeezie (October 30th, 2018)
Vintage exclusively. I dislike modern pens with a passion, no character or soul in them.
No. There is not even a list of the various Petersburg, Va era fountain pen makers. But it's likely that they were all related even if only as kissin cuzins.
KBeezie (October 30th, 2018)
I have several speadsheets ( in Excel) of FP manufacturers, but cannot do a copy/paste of them.
catbert (October 30th, 2018)
This is the sort of thing I am after, but for pens.
https://www.leeroysramblings.com/Gun...ouse_guns.html
It would be a lot of fun diving down that rabbit hole. The reality is, that is more task than I have time to dedicate.
I've seen a few notable websites have charts similar to that but rather brand or series specific, would be kind of cool having such a 'family tree' catalog as it were (or such resources such as ParkerPens, Richard Binder's site, etc etc could be used to construct such information just be very specific on giving credit where it's due).
I feel like that kind of thing people have spent years doing just on a certain market alone.
Elim (October 30th, 2018)
KBeezie (October 31st, 2018)
There's fountainpen wiki you could visit - it's not a chart, but it's a starting point
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