The website for collectors of writing equipment

WES Spring 2010 Meetings

Bath Meeting

British Postal Museum Meeting

WES Autumn 2009 meetings in London

WES Autumn 2008 meeting in London

WES Spring 2008 Meeting in Birmingham

WES Spring 2007 meeting in Bath

WES Autumn 2007 meeting in London

Over the last ten years, themes of WES meetings have included:

Art Nouveau products

Mordan pencils

American and UK classic pens

Collecting and dealing

Technological inkwells

Inadequacies in writing instrument design

 

 

Blotters

A calligrapher’s studio

Vulcanite and plastics

Paper and letter knives

Stamp cases

Pen and pencil repairs

Wax and paper seals

Mechanical pencils

Making and selling fountain pens

Commemorative and souvenir products

The steel pen

Silver and gold writing instruments

Children’s writing equipment

Wartime and military products

Paper

Writing slopes and boxes

Cosmetic repair of fountain pens

British ‘Own Brand’ fountain pen

The Parker ballpoint pen

 

Candlestick letter scales

Stamp boxes from the Mediterranean

Story of the writing slate

Wooden rulers

Archives of the Parker Pen Company

Conway Stewart

Nib profiles and handwriting

Life before the fountain pen

Current retail trade in fountain pens

Glass-nibbed pens

Hand made fountain pens

The Parker 51

Men, women & children in the pen trade

Life of Lazlo Biro

 

WES Summer 2008 meeting in London