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INDEX OF JOURNALS 1 – 84, Spring 2009

Numeric
(An) 1856 fountain pen (various makers), 60 p34-35
2B or not 2B, that is the Pencil, 31 p27
70 years of Fountain Pen Manufacture in Italy, 26 p15 19, 27 p24 29, 29 p9¬-14, 31 p22 26

A.
(The) Abdication Pen 58 p6
About ink cakes, 70 p42-43
Across the Channel and back (Pump Inkstand), 44 p9 15
Adventures with the pen prophet, 66 p21-27
Advertising on stamp boxes, 77 p19-22
(The) Advertising power of Royalty 65 p9
Albin Schram The cache of Letters assembled over half a Lifetime, 80 p26
Alexander Munro’s ‘Research fountain pen’, 76 p32-34
Alfred Dunhill & Namiki Writing Instruments, 61 p13-15
All that glisters, 72 p7
(An) airplane that inspired the Parker 51 Flighter, 60 p28-29
Amazing Onoto Mamouth Desk Se,t 80 p12-13
(The) American child’s pencil case, 54 p26-28
(An) Anthology of Fountain Pens, 25 p11 12
Another contender for the invention of the steel pen, 67 p52
Arabic Calligraphy, 81 p28-31
(The) Art of the handwritten note, 70 p33-34
(The) Art of the Personal Letter: A Guide to Connecting with the Written Word (book review), 83 p44-45
Arthur Twydle, 75 p35-36
Aspects of Bramah, 36 p29 30
(The) Association of British Steel Pen Manufacturers & HMSO (WWII), 30 p17 20
Assorted 'Foreigners' (Fountain Pens), 40 p28 30, 42 p33
At the Sign of the Swan – Harlesden, 62 p16-19
At the Sign of the Swan – Sunderland House, 63 p16-23
At the Sign of the Swan, Your Pen & Ink. 1. Ink, 60 p48-52
At the Sign of the Swan, Your Pen & Ink. 2. His (or her Nibs), 61 p45-47
Attics can Still Contain Treasures!, 84 P26-27
Au Fil de la Plume, 82 p56-57
(The) Automatic fountain pen, 64 p20
(The) Autumn meeting of the Stamp Box Study Circle, 71 42-43

B.
Back to the Future (Ballpen vs Fountain Pen), 45 p38
Ballpen, The development of, 3 p14 16
(The) Ballpen Test, 43 p9 16
Ban all Pen Toppers, 76 p31
Batemans – the home of Rudyard Kipling, 76 p38-39
Bath Postal Museum has Moved, 78 p15
Before the Ballpoint, 9 p14 21
Belgian pen shop displays at the start of World War II, 74 p7
(The) Benelux Pen Collectors Association, 56 p41
Bessemer, Sir Henry, 10, p18 19
(The) Best so far, 77 p43
Beware Fake Starwalker, 72 p35
Bibliography, 4 p23 26, 6 p23 28, 7 p24 25, 8 p10 13, 9 p27, 12 p15
(The) Big Scribble, 74 p42-43
Bills, Bills, Bills, 59 p4-9
Birmingham Museum of Science & Industry, Charles Thomas Pen Collection, 3 p5¬ -12, (The Birmingham Pen Trade Charity) 49 p8
Birmingham European Weekend, 80 p46
Biblical writing equipment, 64 p51-52
(The) Birmingham Pen Trade Heritage Association, 57 p46
Birmingham Pen Trade Heritage Association, 67 p9
Biro 70 Today, 82 p58-59
(A) Bird in the Hand 78 p30-31
Biro, Ladislao José, 15 p7 12
(A) Biro Aeroplane 79 p24-26
(The) Biro ballpen (The early years 1945-1950), 56 p28-32
(The) Biro Patents, 41 p21 25, 43 p42 44
(The) Birth of a new pen technology MOSQUITO, 70 p44-45
Bishop, William 50 years of Collecting, 2 p12 13, 6 p14
Blickensderfer, 19 p25
Blotters, 19 p16 18
Boer is Beautiful (Penholders), 47 p33 35
Book Review, 16 p30, 17 p31, 24 p27 30, 26 p30 32, 28 p20 22, 30 p34, 32 p33, 36 p26, 40 p18 19, 41 p32, 44 p16 18 & cover, 45 p39 42 & cover, 46 p40, 47 p36 38, 48 p28, 49 p42 43
Book reviews Pump inkwells, 71 p6
Book reviews Parker 51, 71 p7
Bookshelf, 6 p18 22, 7 p22 23, 10 p24 25, 14 p27, 22 p26 27
(A) Boon and a blessing (Steel Nibs) 58 p8-9
Bottled fountain pen inks. Left-handed ink? 75 26-28
Boxed and beautiful, 68 p9
Boy without arms wins handwriting prize, 60 p8-9
Brandauer, C & Co, 28 p14 19
Brandauer & Co’s Scottish Nibs, 80 38-40
Brass Stamp Boxes & Cases, 51 p14-21
(A) Brief history of Burnham 1920-1966, 74 4
(A) Brief history of inkwells and inkhorns in the Museum of Writing, 72 p12-13
British Fountain Pen Manufacturers, 14 p8 11, 15 p41, 16 p16 17
(The) British Fountain Pen Market in 1958, 30 p25 30
British Geography on Steel Nibs, 45 p22 24
British Stamp Box Patents 81 p34-35
Brockedon, William 17 p18 20
Bubbles and how they control the flow of ink in a Fountain Pen, 2 p8 11
(The) Burberry Dover Collection, 63 p24-25

C.
Canada Post has done it again! 59 p11
Candlestick Letter Scales, 63 p29-34
Candlesticks (Postal Scales), 7 p14 18
Carlyle’s house and its writing equipment, 61 p28-29
(The) Case of Isabella Lang, 77 p56
Carstairs in Italy, 68 p34-35
(The) Case for Casein, 42 p16 18
Casein in writing equipment, 70 p48-50
Celebrity Pens, 80 p42
Centennial (Mordan), 26 p22 23
Charles de Jaeger, 66 p30-32
(A) Chat with a Walrus (Sealing Wax), 11 p28 29
Chatelaines, 53 p6-7
Children & writing equipment, 54 p15
Children in advertising and advertising for children, 54 p38-39
Children on postcards, 54 p32-33
Chinese Fountain Pens, 73 10-15
Chinese mountain high (Reynolds), 60 p18-21
Chippendale’s library desk at Nostell Priory, 70 p8-9
Christmas Shopping in 1908, 59 p44-47
City of Glasgow pen, 74 p8-9
Collecting is only borrowing… so look after your pens, 57p12
(A) collector is born, 66 p19
Collecting pocket-watch inkwells, 70 p46
(A) Collector’s dilemma, 53 p46
Combination stamp boxes and cases, 57 p47
Commemorative pieces and souvenirs, 58 p48-49
Conservation and display of ephemera, 61 p10-11
(A) Conway ‘in action’, 58 p22
Conway Stewart, 51 p6-7
Conway Stewart (A Lifetime with Pens), 2 p4 5
Conway Stewart boxed sets (number index), 68 p10
Conway Stewart Centenary, 74 p27
Conway Stewart the early years, 29 p28 33
Conway Stewart hallmarked and overlay pens, 75 p20-22
Conway Stewart in the 1930s incl 4 p listing, 52 p36-41
Conway Stewart model numbers, 59 p34
Conway Stewart Study Day 78 p12-13
Conway Steward Today, 83 p34-36
Copybooks, 54 p40-43
Coronation pens and pencils of a different kind, 73 p33
(The) course of true love is Brandauer shaped, 51 p37
Crested china, 56 p34-35
Cracked Ice Update, 80 p22
Cross, A T & Co, profile of, 4 p18 22
Cross, A T, Providence's Prodigious Child, 10 p11 15
Cross my palm with silver…are silver pens good value? 71 p12-14
Cryptopenology VII (Prosperity Pen), 80 p28-31)
Cult Pens, 83 p18-19
(The) Cumberland Pencil Museum, 59 p37

D.
D Leonardt & Co., 58 p15-20
Dance of the Pen (BBC2 11/94), 42 p11
(The) Dangers of fountain pen collecting, 62 p29
(The) Dating & Identification of Manufacturer of Tunbridge Ware Stamp Boxes, 50 p17 23
(A) Day to remember (Auctions), 57 p24-25
De La Rue Co Ltd, Thomas, 18 p23 35
De La Rue/Onoto Pens & Ink Pencils (1929 35), 29 p25
Desks on display, 62 p10-12
Despatch Boxes, 33 p20 22
Development of the typewriter and computer printers, 64 p42-44
Dinky Cars, 84 p12
Dipping into Inkwells, 46 p10 I2
Donkin, Bryan, Inventor, 10 p8 10
Doultonware De La Rue Patented Isobath Inkstand, 79 p12-13
(The) Düren Paper Museum, 61 p39
Dual purpose paper knives and letter openers, 67 p26-27
Dunhill-Namiki 75 year link celebrated, 75 p5

E.
Early portable copying machines, 76 p10-16
Early One Mordan, 35 p28 35
EBay shoppers beware!, 71 p24
Eclipse, Canada's forgotten Fountain Pen Maker, 24 p7 13
(The) Edith Collection, 60 p26-27
(An) elegant hand (book review), 66 p5-7
Elephant Inkwells, 64 p4-5
(An) Endless Galaxy of Colours, 79 p6-9
(An) Engineer's View of Writing Instruments, 37 p40 52, 38 p36 52$ 39 p45 56
English Silver and Gold Stamp Cases. Part 2 Envelope Cases, 54 p8-11
English silver & gold stamp cases, 53 p28-31
Engraved Slates, 32 p31 32
(The) ephemera of writing equipment, 64 p18
(The) Ephemera Society, 62 p50
Erno Goldfinger’s desk, 67 p18-19
Every-Ready Sharp Pencil, 84 p42
Excise inks, 59 p12-13

F.
Fabergé Stamp Boxes, 39 37 38
Fairbank, Alfred, 5 p5 6
(A) Few of our favourite things (Desk Items), 61 p42-43
F.G.Thomas Past & Present, 83 p10-13
(The) First piece in my collection, or what started me collecting, 70 p10-11
(The) First propelling pencil? 70 p41
Flanders Fields 90 Years on, 84 p14-16
Flog it! 66 p4
Fluted Writing Points, 72 p14
Foiling the Forger (Printing), 28 p10 12
Following a lead (Archives), 19 p14
For the million – the humble ink bottle, 69 p8-13
Ford’s patent pen, 66 p8-112
Forgotten Cast Iron Writing Equipment from Prussian Foundries, 38 p8 10
(The) Forgotten Dinkie, 82 p8-10
Found in a foreign port, 69 p44-45
(The) Fountain Pen in Central London 1880 1980, 37 p25 35
Fountain Pen Ink Capacities, 63 p27
(A) Fountain pen manufactured in Mandatory Palestine and Israel, 67 p35-37
Fountain pens, their history and art (book review), 67 p23
Fountain Pens Made by Conway Stewart, 63 p26
(A) fountain pen owned by Sir Cornelius Chambers 1862-1941 (Waterman), 57 p30-31
Francis Mordan's Everlasting Gold Pen, 16 p10 15
Free for All (Quills), 62 p40-41
(A) Friend and his laminating skills, 77 p41
Friends of Aurora, 82 p11
Friends United Re-united, 80 p8
From Grignan with Love, 83 p8-9
From Post to Pillar, 47 p13 22
From the Parker company archive 72 p32
Full Circle Changes in Attitude to Writing Equipment over a Short Period of Time, 78 p11
Further thoughts on the chronology and mechanisms of early Mordan pencils, 56 p36-37
G.
Gaskell, George A 1844 1885, 33 36 37
Geo. S. Parker presentation Spitfire, 67 p6-7
Geoffrey Parker, of the Pen Dynasty, Remembers a family Holiday in Florida, 1954, 84 p28
German advertising stamps from the collection of Sam Werder, 54 p30
Gerrards Auction Rooms, 80 p15
Gillott, 49 p9 15
Gillott's Steel Pen Manufactory. 13 p8 12
(A) Gold Metal pen repair, 67 p24-25
Gold Pens in the USA, 13 p16 24
(The) Golden age of French Pump Inkwells, 64 p38-41
Golden Jubilee of Swan pens, 64 p30-33
Golden Swan, 19 p32
Gracie Fields and a Swan Visofil Pen, 82 P22
Green Satin Revealed Update, 81 p49
Grieshaber Toothpick Fill Pen, 75 p7

H.
Habin Forming, 71 p30
(The) Hand as used in writing and as a writing tool, 61 p4-7
Handcrafted for Excellence (S T Dupont), 39 p35 36
Handmade wooden writing instruments, 61 p23-25
Handwriting in America: a cultural history, 52 p2527
Hawkins, John Isaac, 7 p21, 13 p14
Heintze & Blanckertz Kleine Ly Schulfeder, 81 p12-13
Henry or Harry (Burnham) – to be or not to be, 72 p27
Henry Simpole, 84 p6-11
Henry Stephens FRCS 1796-1864, 64 p28-29
Her Nibs 74 p10-12
Hinks, Wells & Co of Birmingham, 81 p24-26
History of Precious Metal Pen Nibs, 25 p23 29
History lessons from steel nibs (Philip Poole), 53 p34-35
(A) History of Steel Pen Nibs, 42 p8 10
History on a paper knife, 61 p26-27
Holiday with Penfriends, 15 p39 40
Home thoughts from Abroad, 83 p40-41
Horn books, 54 p16-17
(The) Humble Pencil Box, 48 p11 17

I.
I gave Goring his poison pill, says American, 72 p26
I want to Photograph my Pens, 27 p21 23
I was on my Way, 84 p43
Illustrated alphabets, 68 p40-42
Improving handwriting, 53 p17-19
In love with a fountain pen, 76 p45
In Memoriam (Mentmore), 55 p8
In Praise of the Parker 41, 77 p52-43
In Praise of Pencils, 83 p26
In search of Mordans, 52 p6-8
In the Box, 42 p7, 43 p8, 44 p8, 45 p6 7, 46 p5 6, 47 p6, 48 p6 7, 49 p6 7, 50 p8, 52 p18
Inadequacies of writing instrument design and manufacture (Part 1), 67 p28-31
Inadequacies of writing instrument design and manufacture (Part 2), 68 p14-18
Inadequacies of writing instrument design and manufacture (Part 3), 69 p30-35
Inaugural Meeting, Minutes, 1 p3
Ink, 4 p8 10
Ink, 73 p26-32
Ink Manufacturers, 50 p36 37
(The) Ink pot that wasn’t, 53 p7
Ink Sticks, 25 p33 37
Inks, 13 p139 20 p32 33
Inks & Papers. 23 p6 11
Inkstands from the porcelain factory of Fürstenberg, 64 p26-27
Inside slide & telescopic Pencils, 27 p12 20
International Dimensions of Handwriting, 53 p9
Introducing the Yoropen, 70 p5
Iridium. History of, 20 p20 25
Is the pen mightier than the computer? 55 p24-25
Israel pen club, 67 p38
Italic Nibwidths. 39 p29 30

J.
Jack Hobbs and Waterman Pens, 63 p26
James Lee-Milne memoirs, 51 p3
Janesville Daily Gazette 12 April 1910 (Robbery), 80 48-49
(A) Jasmin overlay fountain pen 62 p14-15
(The) Jewel Pen Company, 33 p14 19
(The) Jock, 84 p38-39
John Mitchell – Father of the Birmingham steel pen trade, 55 p5-7
Joseph Carstairs a forgotten writing master, 57 p8-9
Just a line (Postcards), 30 p10 15
Just for the Record (Conway Stewart), 55 p12-15

K.
Knee Writing Board, 11 p6 7

L.
Lamy, 22 p19 25
Lasting Impressions, 53 p10-13
Left Handers, 84 p46-47
Leonardt, D (Highley Pens), 2 p14
Letter Perfect, 20 p16 19
Liberty’s Cymric & Tudric inkwells, 57 p26-29
(The) Library desk at Erddig, 64 p4
(The) Life and times of the Writing Slope, 56 p26-27
Life before the fountain pen, 74 p18-20
Life in the Day of the Membership Secretary, 65 p16
(A) Little piece of Mabie Todd 62 p51London Museums, 72 p25
London Pen Show weekend… and what a weekend it was! 71 p26-27
London WES Show Reflections of the Organiser, 80 p6-7
Longpen, 78 p16-17
Look at a pen, 71 p29
Lord Warrington’s inkstand, 66 p16-18
(The) Lost Art of Handwriting? Or a few Years on from the Big Scribble, 78 p44-45
LWES Duofold, 80 p9
LWES Show 2008, 82 p6-7
LWES Show 2008, 83 p6-7

M.
M Myers & Son Ltd, 9 p10 13
Mabie in America, writing instruments from 1843-1941 (book review), 67 p22
Stylographic Pens (Mabie Todd), 30 p35
Mabie Todd & Co Ltd, 12 p7 11, 15 p31 33, 16 p21 27, 19 p26 32, 21 p13 21, 23 p17 27, 32 p17 30
Mabie Todd Colour Codes, 39 p22 28
Macniven and Cameron’s Waverley Pen, 70 p19-24
Mayflower II, 84 p30-33
(The) Magic Slate, 68 p20-26
Maki E pens from the Land of the Rising Sun, 27 p6 11
(The) Making of Waterman Hard Rubber Pens, 78 p33-35
(The) Man they call His Nibs, 10 p7
(A) Man’s writing table and the things it should hold, 65 p6
(The) Managers office at Quarry Bank Mill, 68 p48-49
Manon Lescant by Hinks Wells & Co. 58 p10-13
Manufacturers of Steel Pens, Historical Notes, 7 p13
Mason, Josiah, 43 p17 19
Mary Tiene visits The Pen Room, 68 p12-13
Materials, 55 p16-20
Mauchline Ware, 52 p28-31
Mauchline Ware & the postal historian, 53 p38-41
(The) Mechanical Pencil debate – who was really first, 58 p24-25
Michel Audiard, 74 p14-15
Microphotography (Stanhopes), 46 p13 15
Mightier than the Sword, 1 p8
Milton Reynolds, 61 p32-37
Mini museum in Wakefield is ‘write on’, 75 p34
Miniature Writing Equipment, 40 p20 22
Miscellanea, 67 p17
Miscellanea, 68 p19
Miscellanea, 71 p52
Mitchell. Charles Ainsworth, 28 p6 8
Moholy Nagy, Lazlo, 38 p29 34
Moldy Oldies, 75 p43
Mont Blanc, a Brief History, 31 p15 21
(A) Montblanc Architect’s Pen, 78 p38-39
Mont Blanc Masterpiece!, 19 p19 23
Montblanc celebrates 100 years, 76 35-37
Montegrappa, 42 p34 38
Mordan & Riddle (In Chancery), 18 p19 20
More about inks, 76 p41
More on the Parker Patrician, 59 p21-22
MOW Update, 82 p42
Mr Vere Foster's Recipe for legibility, 37 18 19
Mr Wordsworth’s office furniture, 73 p24-25
Museum of Writing, 62 p28
Museum of Writing 66 p42
(The) Museum of Writing 68 p53
(The) Museum of Writing, 70 p38-39
(The) Museum of Writing, 75 p41
Museum Scryption, 62 p13
Museums & exhibitions, 60 p42-43
My favourite pen, 69 p14
My First Mordan, 63 p54
My Personal Pen World Part 1, 64 p6-8
My Personal Pen World Part 2, 65 p18-19
My search for old school desks, 54 p44-47
(The) Myth of the breather hole, 74 p5

N.
(The) Nature of Chinese Calligraphy, 77 p31-36
(A) Nelson amongst Writing Slopes, 63 p42-47
New market survey of luxury pens, 58 p37
New nibs for old? 58 p21
News from the Pen Room, 69 p39
(A) Nib Box Heaving with History, 83 p14-19
Nibs (1929) Ltd, 29 p34
Nibs che una passion! 75 p38-40
Nibs! What a passion, 67 p42-44
Nibs! What a passion Part 6 Official nibs, 72 p45-47
Nibs! What a passion Spotting errors, 71 p44-45
Nibs! What a passion, Roses, swans & crowned heads, 70 p12-14
Nibs! What a passion, Types, shapes and functions, 68 p44-47
(The) Northern Pen Show 2002, 65 p45
(The) Northern Pen Show 2003, 68 p56
Northern Pen Show (2008), 82 p44-45
(The) Not so humble Pencil, 56 p7-8
Not so much a Talk from the Trade, more a Parley from the Press. Part 1. The magazines of clubs and societies, 69 p36-37
(A) Notable anniversary (Waterman), 56 p47
(A) Note on historical statistics for writing instruments, 72 p22-23
Notebook Ballpens, 29 p22 24
Ink, 23 p12 13
Mordan, 25 p30 32
Pencils, 24 p14 15
Penholders, 26 p6
Nothing to be pensive about (Gillott), 26 p20 21
Novelty ballpoints, 58 p26-29

O.
Of Writing, Royalty and commemorative pens, 73 p18-21
Off the rails (Steel Nibs), 53 p36-37
Older Pencil sharpeners, 54 p29
(The) Oldest known postcard, 65 p10
Omas, 23 p32 36
On Copperplate and missiles, 38 p14 15
On Mordan's Shop Floor, 22 p10 11
On the B side, 75 p10-17
On the Flexibility of Steel Pens, 29 p6 8
Online US Patent number searches, 65 p38-39
Once upon a pencil, 54 p20-23
Oolala Show, 82 p12-13
Original or Restored, 39 p15 16
Ormiston & Glass, 36 p16 17
Our Sister Club in France, 55 p47

P.
(A) Page from the Harrods 1917 catalogue, 55 p42-43
Pandora’s hold-alls, 68 p38-39
Pantographic pens, 55 26-27
Paper, 44 p19 30, 45 p9 19
Paper Knives, 40 p24 27
Paper Mush (Papier Mâché), 34 14 17
Paperweights, 15 p13 15
Paris Resting Place for Celebrities and Pens in their Honour, 79 p40-42
Parker, 14 p15 21, 15 p22 30, 17 p8 17, 24 p16 23, 25 p14 18, 31 p8 13('51’), 33 p30 36 ('61')
Parker 51 and Leonard Bernstein, 79 p31
(The) Parker 71, 73 8-9
Parker 100, 69 p52-53
Parker % Waterman Happy Birthday, 83 p23
Parker Accession, 63 p14-15
(The) Parker Aeroplane, 59 p52-53
Parker Duofold The Pen Book of the Year 77 p214-226
Parker experimental nibs 1946-55 part one, 75 p24-25
Parker experimental nibs 1946-55 part two, 76 p42-43
Parker from Janesville to Newhaven, 57 p38-41
Parker, George S, 37 p9 11
(A) Parker Patrician! 58 p43
Parker Pen Co, profile of, 6 p8 12
Parker pen production in Argentina, 69 p24-28
Parker unveils special edition pen Duofold Mosaic, 62 p 26 -27
Parker Vacumatic (book review), 82 p40-41
Parkins & Gotto's Catalogue 1856, 34 p6 8
Parley from the Press Part II. Spoilt for choice or one a week! U p26-28
(The) Parliamentary Archives, 80 p34-35
(A) Passion for pen nibs, 59 p39-41
Pearson’s release penholder, 51 p41
Peep into the Past, 3 p13
Pelikan – Historische Siegelmarken ( Historic Poster Stamps, 77 p28-29
Pelikan Story, 20 p6 15
Pen & Ink at Shakespeare’s Globe, 57 p6
Pen at War, 9 p24 26, 10 p20 23
Pen Brushes or Cleaners, 40 p23
Pen Classic Kearney’s Red Dwarf, 79 p34-36
(The) Pen club of India, 69 p17
Pen Design, 41 p26 29
Pen, Ink & Steam, 53 p8
Pen Making (Quills), 1 p10 17
Pen Mechanisms: A list of 45 different systems with date ands some patent information, 73 p39
Pen mechanisms revealed: The Swan Visofils, 65 p12-14
Pen mechanisms revealed: No.3 The Blackbird Topfillers, 70 p29-32
Pen nib Archeology, 76 p28-29
Pen Nib Boxes, 17 p21
Pen Nib Issuers, 7 p10 11, 8 p7, 9 p8 9, 10 p16-17
Pen Nibs, 7 p6 13
Pen of my fathers,52 p20-21
Pen of the Year, 82 p48-50
Pen polka, 70 p
Pen Portrait of Alec Johnston, 61 18-19
Pen Portrait of Arnold Greenwood, 43 p24 25
Pen Portrait of Arthur Twydle 53 p44-45
Pen Portrait of Bernard Hawkins, 63 p38-39
Pen Portrait of Fergus McCurley, 66 p40-41
Pen Portrait of Francis Dickson, 37 p16 17
Pen Portrait of Geoff Roe, 50 p24 25
Pen Portrait of Hannah Finburgh, 46 p16 17
Pen Portrait of Hugh Anderson, 58 p40-41
Pen Portrait of Jon Denmee, 71 p18-19
Pen Portrait of Maureen Greenland, 48 p9 10
Pen Portrait of Neil Davis, 58 p23
Pen Portrait of Norris Gilbert, 64 p10-11
Pen Portrait of Philip Poole, 39 p10 14
Pen Portrait of Roberto Morassi, 45 p20 21
Pen Portrait of Sheila Johnstone, 70 p15
Pen Repair (Book), 82 p28-29
Pen, Tool or Jewel, 12 p20 23
Pen vs Typewriter, 20 p27 29
(The) Pen Wiper, 59 p17
Pen Wipers 59 p14-16
(A) Pen with an '00' (Typhoo), 28 p9
Pens for kids, 77 p47-48
Penchant (Fountain Pens), 35 p8 16, 36 p9 15, 37 p12 15, 38 p22 28, 39 p39 44, 40 p7 15, 41 p10 13, 42 p19 30, 43 p33 41, 44 p36 42, 45 p25 27, 46 p8 9, 47 p27 29, 48 p26 27, 49 p22 24, 50 p40 41, 51 p26-27, 53 p14
Pencil it in, 68 p28-33
(The) Pencil, 5 pf 2 17
Pencil Collecting, 47 p40
(The) Pencil is mightier than the bullet, 57 p42-43
Pencils (Lead, Brockedon/Riddle), 18 p21
Pencils & things (Hayden), 52 p9-11
Pennenverzamelaarsclub Nederland, 57 p49
Penne Italiane, 69 p40-43
Penol An Offspring of the Depression Part 1, 80 p18-21
Penol An Offspring of the Depression Part 2, 81 p18-21
Pens & pencils in the fur trade, 51 p 24-25
Pens crafted from nature, 62 p44-45
Pens in war and peace, 71 p38-41
Pens to Satisfy, 29 p15 17
Perry & Co.Ltd, 32 p8 16
Perry & Co’s ‘Naval Series’ of pens, 60 p44-45
Pinto & treen, 67 p46-47
Pitman pen auctioned at Bath, 72 p38-39
(A) Plain but interesting box of pen nibs, 71 p47
(The) Plastic Cartridge, 81 p6-9
Plastics in Pens, 22 p7 9
Platignum, 83 p28-31
(La) Plume Capotée (Hooded Nibs), 50 p26 34
Post War Conways, 50 p9 16
Poor Man's Silver (Pewter), 39 p17 21
(The) Positive pressure Ballpen Cartridge, 47 p30 32
Postal Scales S Mordan & Co, 21 p25 40
Potters on the Goss Bandwagon, 47 p9 10
Pounce boxes & their uses, 8 p14 18
(The) Practical Pen, 14 p22 26, 15 p16 21, 16 p6 9, 17 p26 30, 18 p14 17
Precious pens and priceless paper, 71 p21
Price indexing data, 77 p23
(The) Prime Minister, the silversmith & the inkstand (Sir Robert Walpole), 52 p24
(The) Primrose League, 78 p40—41
Printing of the WES Journal, 22 p15 18
Projected museum dedicated to your interests (Museum of Writing), 54 p13
(A) Prototype Parker 61, 80 p11
Public Letter Writers (Scribes), 57 32-37
Pump wells and fountain pens, 66 p45
Puzzle Corner (travelling writing set & Vale Eyedropper), 65 p48-49
Puzzle Corner (memo tablet), 67 p33

Q.
(The) Quest (Sheaffers), 58 p30-36
Where there's a Quill there's a Way, 1 p10 11
The Government of the Goose Quill, 36 p7

R.
(The) Rampant Lion History of Hallmarking, 41 p14 20
(The) Re-designed Sheaffer calligraphy fountain pen, 64 p12-13
(A) Rare Stanhope, 80 p16
(A) Recently discovered Sheldon escritoire, 68 p12-13
Reflections of a Veteran Collector, 36 p31 32
Related 'Brits' (Fountain Pens), 43 p27 32
Repairing Onoto piston Pens, 57 p15-17
(Some) Reminiscences on Pens & Pencils in England, 15 p34 38
Repairing a Conway Stewart No 800 Piston Pen, 65 24-25
Report of the Autumn 2007 Meeting of the Stamp Box Circle, 82 p34
Report of the Autumn Meeting The Stamp Box Circle Registered Designs, 84 p18-20
Report of the Spring 2008 Meeting of the Stamp Box Circle, 83 p20-21
Report on the WES Birmingham Meeting 13 Feb 2005, 72 p8-11
Reversible portable writing items, 64 p22-23
(The) rise of the British seaside holiday, 76 p24-25
(The) Rolls Royce of Pencil Sharpeners, 72 p36-37
Round Midnight (BBC Radio 2, extracts from), 4 p11 13
Royal Mail Occasions (postage stamps), 62 p37
Royal Mail Occasions Stamps, 61 p48
Ruskin’s pens …who? 75 p4
Rusty Nibs, 38 p35

S.
Sabretaches, 76 p6-8
Sampson Mordan a Competitive Manufacturer, 78 p6-9
Sampson Mordan a Competitive Manufacturer, 79 p16-19
Santa Brian (Stuart Dickenson), 84 p22
School Museums, 84 p24-25
(The) School Slate, 62 p31-36
Scrap metal, 66 p46-47
Scraps of folded paper in pen nib boxes, 71 p33-35
Seal Chisel, 13 p6 7
(The) Search for Conway Stewart related pens, 61 p31
Security by Design (Stephens' & Arnold's Ink Labels), 49 p17 21 & cover
Sheaffer’s PFM, 56 p38-39
Sharing our Enthusiasm with Others, 63 p55
Shall I or shan’t I? Report on the Spring 2004 Meeting of the Stamp Box Study Circle, 70 p36-37
(The) Sharp Experience in Perth, 84 p48-49
Shaw’s corner, 60 p15
(The) Sheaffer Pen, 17 p22 25
Sheaffer Wasp Pen, 55 p10-11)
Sheffield Penknives, 23 p28 31
Sheldon’s Patent Pocket Escritoir, 81 p37
(A) Short history of Stamp Boxes, 33 p10 13
Should I hire a unit in an Antiques’ centre? 72 p29
Silver Quills, 19 p7
Silver Stamp Boxes & Cases Makers' Marks, 34 p28-31
Sir Isaac Pitman Pen, 83 p22
Six Outsiders (Fountain Pens), 47 p10 12
(The) Slate pencil, 77 p11-16
(A) Small exhibition in rural Suffolk (HB Crisp), 59 p38
(The) Social significance of the Inkblot, 51 p22-23
(Other) Societies for Collectors of Writing Equipment, 43 p7
(The) Society’s York Meeting (8 June 2002), 65 22
Soennecken, 28 p23 27
Sold at Auction (Charles Dickes’ Desk), 82 p23
Some Early British Fountain Pens, 36 p18 19, 37 p38 39, 38 p16 17
Some Imprint Pens made by Mabie Todd & Co Ltd. 81 p42-44
Some more jewels in the crown, 68 p6-7
Some Observations on the Ballpoint Pen, 43 p22 23
Sorrento Ware stamp boxes, 56 p44-45
Souvenir of the 'Tour de France' (inkwell), 31 p20 22
Souvenir de Pithiviers some rather special penholders, 73 4-7
Souvenir inkwells and inkstands of the Great War, 62 p6-7
(The) Smart Quill, 55 p22-23
Looking Back (Spectacles), 33 p23 27
Spa Ware Stamp Boxes, 58 p42
(A) Special Onoto Overlay, 84 p40
Spencerian Pens, 42 p31 32, 45 p28
Spotlight on John Sheldon 1802/1808–1863 (Patent pocket escritoir), 65 p 31-37
(The) Spring 2007 Meeting of the Stamp Box Study Circle, 80 p50-52
Stamp Boxes, 16 p18 20
Stamp Box Study Circle, 78 p20-23
(The) Stamp box study group, 69 p16-17
(Lacquer and papier mache) Stamp Boxes, 55 p37-38
(Trick or Puzzle) Stamp Boxes, 41 p8 9
(Dated Tunbridge Ware) Stamp Boxes, 36 p25
(Dispensing (with) the Rolls) (Stamp Dispensers), 35 p17 21
Stamp holders for children, 54 p36-37
Stanhopes, 52 p15-17
Stanhopes, 81 p41
Stanhopes a closer view (book review), 66 p39
Steel nibs: a Boulogne industry, 72 p40-41
Steel Pen making after the second World War at Gillotts, 56 p11-21
(In praise of) Steel Pens, 51 p32-33
(Marketing the) Steel Pen, 52 p22-23
Steel Pens & children 54 p18-19
Steel Sand Boxes a controversy resolved, 14 p12
(The) Stenograph, 79 p29
(The) Stephens button filler, 76 p20-21
Stephens' Ink, 22 p12 14
(The) Stephens Pen, 44 p31 35
Stipula, 46 p38 39
(The) Story of a collection, 72 p20-22
(The) story of the Inky Boys, 54 p34-35
Street jewellery, 66 p33-37
(The) story behind the little globe (Waterman), 74 p28-32
Stub and italic, 64 p48-50
(A) study of the Sheaffer 'Triumph' 1942 1959, 48 p29 43 & cover, 49 p25 41
(A) suprematastic Inkstand, 51 p12-13
(The) Swan Leverless, 41 p33 45
Swan Leverless overlay fountain pen, 55 p30-36

T.
(A) Tale of Two Signs (Hardmuth's), 39 p32 34
Technology puts handwriting in the back seat, 52 p34
Themes for thought, 52 p12
Therapeutic Values of a Hobby, 40 p16 17
They couldn’t go to the ball, 71 p16-17
They do pen and ink! 71 p31-32
Thinking Outside the Box, 78 p28-29
Thomas Cook and souvenir stamp boxes, 65 26-29
Thomson, Robert William 1822 1873, 31 p30
Those were the days, 70 p25
Thoughts of a New Collector, 37 p36 37
(The) Three Fabers, 8 p19
Tips and Tricks Notes from the Repair Bench Part One, 78 p42-43
Tips and Tricks Notes from the Repair Bench Part Two, 79 p38-39
Tips and Tricks Notes from the Repair Bench Part Three, 80 p44-45
Tips and Tricks Notes from the Repair Bench Part Four, 81 p45-46
Titbits from the Trade. Stamp boxes at auction, 70 p16
To Market, To Market to Buy a Fat Pen, 81 p38-40
To the Rescue of the Royal Society of Literature, 80 p 24-25
(The) Toothpick and the Propelling Pencil, 48 p18 23
Top design prize for under a Tenner, 72 p16-17
Treasure Trove, 53 p22-23
Treasury Inkstands, 42 p39
Trial by Television (BBC1 9/97), 50 p42
(A) Trip to Tokyo, 73 p22
Tropen, 19 p8 13
Trompe l’oeil, 67 p32
True Blue, 83 p24-25
Tunbridge Ware Writing Equipment, 37 p20 24
(The) Two Careers of James Perry, 82 p14-20
Two from Rotring, 42 p40 41
Typewriters (It all started with a single key), 12 p16 19

U.
(The) Ultimate Parker 51, 67 p34
(The) Ultimate Parker 51 Desk Set, 78 p36-37
UK Patents 1617 1852, 29 p18 21
Under the Counter (Ink), 36 p27 28
Unearthed a Genuine Piltdown Pencil, 78 p18
(An) Unusual inkwell/stamp box combination, 51 p38-39
(The) Use of Metals in Pens, 46 p33 37

V.
(The) Valentine Pen, 45 p29 37, 46 p19 32 (incl Ford's patent Pen)
Vere Foster (a book review), 66 p5-7
Very special wartime pencils, 59 p37
(A) View from the rostrum, 64 p34
Victorian Office, 11 p12 13
Victorian Writing Accessories, 25 p6 10
(The) Village of Inkpen, 51 p41
(The) Vindolanda Tablets, 84 21
Visconti = Fine Design, 82 p32-33
Visit to the Berol Pencil Factory, A p7

W.
Wahl Eversharp Pens in the UK, 34 p9 13
Walking stick pens, 71 p46
Washington Pen Show August 2002, 65 52
(A) Wartime footnote to history, 53 p24-25
Waterman a special feature, 11 p14 25
Waterman Classification, 1 p9
(A) Waterman Clip, 75 p42
Waterman Past and Present (book review), 83 p38-9
Waterman Products listed in 'The Pen Prophet' 1928 30, 2 p15 20
Waterman unveil Serenite D’Art at the Serpentine gallery, 77 p10
Wavering Waverleys, 77 p38-40
We enjoy collection small inkwells, 59 p18
We have David Livingstone – the French have Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 72 p48
Weapons of destruction from tools of instruction, 75 p32-33
A. Webster & Co (Piccadilly) Ltd., 82 p24-26
(A) Weight off your mind, 71 p8-9
(The) WES 2007 Spring Meeting in Bath, 79 p20-22
WES AGM 2008, 84 p34-35
WES excursion to the Parker pen factory, 53 942
WES Meeting Birmingham, 82 36-37
What's New?, 38 P11 13
What a surprise trip (Conway Stewart), 74 p39
What is a genuine ‘Prototype’? 74 p35-36
What's New? (Aurora), 42 p12 15
When titans clashed (Parker/Waterman), 51 p9-11
Which came first, the egg or… the quill 73 p37-38
William Morris, 83 p32
Wire pen nibs in the Parker experimental archive, 74 p17
“With autograph letter”. A South Coast discovery, 69 p50-51
With one big leap, I was in the deep end, 67 p20-21
(A) Wizards Scribe, 58 p44-46
WMF Stamp Boxes, 36 p23, 16 p24
Wooden Stamp Boxes, 36 p25
(The) World of Ephemera. The insets of Macniven and Cameron, 69 p18-23
Words, 50 p38-39
Words are as old as writing itself, 59 48
(The) Write Stuff, 60 p33
Writing aids for disabled children, 54 p31
(The) Writing desks at Killerton House, 71 p10-11
Writing Equipment and Literature, 5 p7 9
Writing Equipment and the Legal Profession, 16 p28 29
Writing Equipment History, 34 p18 25, 35 p36 43
Writing Equipment on Postage Stamps, 55 p9, 58 p39
Writing history at Lanhydrock House, 62 p22-24
Writing in multiples (Pantographic Pens), 57 p18-21
Writing instruments from Cartier, 67 p10-16
Wurtembergische MatallwarenFabrik, 59 p35-36
Wyvern Pen Co, 18 p7 13

Y.
Yard O Led, 30 p22 24
(The) Year 2000 stamp box, 60 p39