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    Hello, I found a few fountain pens in an antique shop, these 2 being in the best condition of all those that were available. Can anyone help me figure out what they are so I can start to try and figure out how to get them back into usable conditions?

    (I'm new to this forum, so apologies if this is posted in the wrong place)

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    Default Re: Help Identify Pens

    Firstly, welcome to the forum!

    Now, as to the pens. The top pen looks like an Eversharp Symphony. I don't know what the other one is.

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    Default Re: Help Identify Pens

    The second pen was manufactured by the Century Pen Company, a US pen manufacturer from 1892 to 1938. There is a picture of a similar pen in the first link:

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    I thought we should definitely get a Century Pen Company thread going. Unfortunately, I know little about the company, other than its early tie to Parker. Century was based in Whitewater, Wisconsin, which is a mere 20 miles from Janesville. At one time or another, both George Parker and William Palmer held executive positions at Century and were investors.


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    James Nelson Humphrey (1858-1929) was born in Emerald Grove, Wisconsin. He entered grade school at the age of four and Milton College at the age of sixteen. After graduation in 1879, he taught at several high schools in Wisconsin, finally becoming professor of Latin at the Wisconsin State Normal School at Whitewater. While at Whitewater, he co-authored a textbook, Work With Words, a Practical Etymology and Word Analysis.

    In 1892, Humphrey formed the Century Pen Company at Neenah, Wisconsin along with W. F. Palmer and George S. Parker (founders, in 1891, of Parker Pen Company of Janesville, Wisconsin). The Century Pen Company was transferred to Whitewater in 1894 and in 1897, Professor Humphrey resigned his position at the normal school to devote full time to the company. The business prospered in its early years as a manufacturer of fountain pens. About 1912, however, the company ceased its manufacturing operations and became solely a distributor of fountain pens. Subsequently the company's interests expanded to include automatic pencils and paper goods. About 1921, the business began to have financial difficulties when it ceased to pay dividends to stockholders. After Humphrey's death in 1929, his wife Clara Dunn Humphrey, his son Heywood, and Heywood's wife Viola continued in the business. Financial problems forced the dissolution of the company in 1938, but the Humphrey family continued in the office supplies business, forming Century Sales and Service.

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    Default Re: Help Identify Pens

    According to penhero.com it seems the top pen is an Eversharp Symphony Deluxe model 703.

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    Default Re: Help Identify Pens

    Thanks everyone that answered!

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