Pens That Write Right! Featured Pen - Eversharp Skyline Executive. If you are a regular reader of my blog you will immediately recognize this pen from my previous post A Paper Conundrum... however since I have not had it all that long it has never been the subject of a Featured Pen post.
I fell in love with the look of these Skyline pens a few months ago and decided that I had to have one. My friend and fellow blogger, Mary at A Few of My Favorite Things... heard my call and assisted me in the acquisition of this pen and a standard model (the subject of a future post I'm sure). EVERSHARP Pens. PenGallery - Eversharp Skyline Modern Stripe 1941-1948. Eversharp Skyline Modern Stripe 1941-1948 by Jim Mamoulides, May 27, 2002, Updated May 30, 2002 In the late 1930s the Wahl company was losing ground to Parker and Sheaffer with its less popular Doric line.
The company had always had good sales of its pencils, to the point that "Eversharp" was a common term for mechanical pencils, much as other products, such as "Kleenex" were coming into common usage. In 1940, the company reorganized under the Eversharp name and embarked on design of a new pen and pencil line to revive sales. Eversharp engaged industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972) to design the new line, introduced in 1941. Article # 297:- The Eversharp Skyline Nib. In 1940, the newly organized Eversharp Pen Company engaged industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972) to create an all-new pen design.
Dreyfuss drew heavily from prior works, especially the streamlined New York Central Railroad locomotive, the Twentieth Century Limited. Eversharp Skyline Brown Gold Filled Radial Engraved Cap c1943-1948 With Photo of 20th Century Limited The new Skyline pen, introduced in 1941, was a dramatic shift away from the Art Deco designs Wahl Eversharp relied on in the 1930s, and a leap forward into the streamlined and aviation inspired designs that we fast coming in vogue.
The new pen line proved to be a huge success, with over eleven million Skylines sold from 1941 through 1949, making it the largest selling pen of the early 1940s and the largest seller ever for Eversharp. The Skyline is a conventional lever filler with a radical streamlined design, a Dreyfuss hallmark. Reading List – Wahl-Eversharp Skyline. Henry Dreyfuss and the 20th Century Limited « Fountain Pen Restoration. I love trains, especially old ones and there is a nice tie-in to fountain pens.
Henry Dreyfuss, a noted industrial designer of the 20th century, actually assisted in the design of the Wahl / Eversharp Skyline. The Skyline was produced by Wahl in Chicago, IL. during the period 1941-1948. In 1945, it was the best selling pen in the US. Eversharp Skyline. Mid-range Eversharp Skyline, maroon with striped cap, c 1940 The Skyline (actually originally known as the Skyliner) was a dramatic new pen design introduced by Eversharp in 1940.
If the Gold Seals and Dorics and Coronets of the previous decades exemplified Art Deco, then the Skyline looked forward to the cleaner, simpler modern design ethic of the 1940s and 50s. As great a design as it was, the Skyline was sadly overtaken by events that eventually led to the dissoltion of Eversharp as an independent company. Whatever success the Skyline may have had (or not had) at the time, however, it really came into its own in the 1990s, long after its demise; it inspired a number of tributes and overt imitations, and at least one full-scale reissue (one model of which was finished in bright yellow and came with a souvenir model Yellow Cab).
This "Skyline fever" has cooled a bit in recent years, leaving us with the originals to use and admire. Pen Search Results. Peaceable Writer. Please, if you find errors in the information about these fountain pens kindly let me know!
Especially chime in if you have valuable information to contribute. Fountain Pens by Richard Binder. PenGallery - Eversharp CA Ballpoint 1945-1947. Eversharp CA Ballpoint 1945-1947 by Jim Mamoulides 11/9/02 - Updated 6/13/03.
Parker Pens Penography: PARKER-EVERSHARP. He Eversharp "10.000" was still being offered in 1962, as was the Reporter ball pen, but both were being phased out.
It now sold with a special offer. If the purchasers returned two empty cartridges with a coupon on the back of the card-pack they received a refund of $1.00 on the $1.98 they paid for the pen. And, purchasers of an 88-cent Eversharp Reporter ballpen could pay a penny more and receive a 39-cent utility Eversharp. Parker Eversharp also offered the The Parker Doric, an alternative to the Jotter, in 1962. In 1962 Parker introduced the $3.95 Parker "45" Arrow cartridge pen. Nother sibling that used the Parker "45" feed and nib was the Varsity, a seldom seen pen marketed in 1963.
As the name suggests, they were aimed to be sold to students. Items in the Parker archives also suggests that the pens were sold either with stainless caps or plastic caps, Parker "45" Arrow style. Another uncommon "45" family member was made in Canada, probably around 1963, a Point *7. Wahl Eversharp 5th Ave CA Ball Point Conversion - The Fountain Pen Community. The Wahl-Eversharp Forum. Wahl Eversharp - FountainPen. Ink Sacs for Wahl-Eversharp Pens. PenGallery - Eversharp Skyline 1941-1949. Eversharp Skyline. Introduced in 1941 and discontinued in 1948, the Skyline was one of the most popular pens of its era.
Generous wartime production allowances played their part, but its radical styling and consistently smooth and responsive nibs made it a favorite of writers then and now. Eversharp was a pioneer in hiring well-known industrial designers (the Loewy-designed Symphony was introduced in 1948); for the Skyline, it turned to Henry Dreyfuss, whose credits included numerous icons of modernist design. Few books on Dreyfuss mention his work for Eversharp, though the connection with his other prewar streamline designs – the 20th Century Limited, for example – is obvious. This is not accidental: as this essay notes, Dreyfuss later rejected streamlining, and did his best to minimize the extent to which he had contributed to that style. PenGallery - Wahl Eversharp. PenGallery: Wahl Eversharp Main Page And Penography User Guides Wahl Eversharp Machine Engraved Patterns 1921-1929 Eversharp Pencils - The Operator's Guide Advertisement Gallery Wahl Eversharp Advertisement Gallery.
