Raymond Lowey Eversharp Fountain Pen, with Original Box, USA 1950

Iconic, Museum Quality ** Raymond Lowey Wahl Eversharp Fountain Pen, with Original Box – MID CENTURY DESIGN, USA 1950 **

Offered for your consideration is this rare and iconic Raymond Loewy designed Eversharp fountain pen.

Lowey (1893 – 1986) variously is referred to as “The Man Who Shaped America”, “The Father of Streamlining” and “The Father of Industrial Design”.

His other iconic designs include the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos… the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus… Coca-Cola vending machines… the Lucky Strike package… Coldspot refrigerators…the Studebaker Avanti as well as Champion… and the Air Force One presidential livery. Additionally, he was instrumental in numerous railroad designs, including the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 and S-1 locomotives.

With its bullet-like forms, this remarkable fountain pen embodies the essence of Raymond Lowey’s “Streamline” design. Crowned with a steel cap adorned by decorative pink gold band and trim, when taken into hand it’s pleasantly cool to the touch… adding a sensory dimension to the writing experience. The pen’s by is an elegant burgundy in color, as well as shaped for maximum comfort in the hand… all the way to the 14K solid gold nib with medium writing point.

• Overall pen length: 14 cm
• Filler system: Lever
• Nib: 14K gold. Medium point. Flexible. Signed EVERSHARP 14K MADE IN USA
• Condition: Excellent

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Eversharp history

Wahl-Eversharp, later known uniquely as Eversharp, was one of the four most important manufacturers of top quality pens in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.

Originally founded  in 1905 by inventor John Conrades Wahl as the Wahl Adding Machine Company, it diversified in 1914 to produce the Eversharp propelling pencil. The latter, invented by Charles Keeran, had a lead so thin that it didn’t need to be sharpened, yet was thick enough not to easily break.

Three years later, by then a major player in the writing instruments sector, Wahl acquired the Boston Pen Company. Boston pens were famed for their high quality, and for the innovative roller ball at the end of their clips to protect gentlemen’s shirt pockets from wear caused by repeatedly inserting and removing a pen.

Thereafter, John Conrades Wahl directed his inventive genius towards improving the design of writing implements and equipment for their manufacture. This soon resulted in over fifty patents and important awards of merit including the industrial medal of the Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915), and the John Scott Legacy’s medal and premium of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (1915).

The Wahl Pen Company proved slower than most in moving from hard rubber to Pyralin (celluloid) as the material from which they manufactured their pens. However it proved to be worth the wait; for when they did make the change, it resulted in some of the most beautiful fountain pens ever produced. These include the 1920 beautiful Personal Point pens fitted with roller clip, the Doric and Coronet pens of the 1930s, both very fine examples of high Art Deco style, as well as the futuristic Skyline and its cousin the Fifth Avenue during the ensuing decade.

Finally, during the ballpoint-pen craze of the late 1940s, the Company miscalculated and eventually paid the ultimate price, culminating in Parker’s 1957 purchase of Wahl’s writing instrument operations and the brand’s demise soon thereafter.

Notwithstanding, collectors are unanimous about Wahl’s flair for elegance high quality and interesting designs. As such, faint – and often not-so-faint – echoes of the stylish Wahl-Eversharp pens of the 1920s-1940s can be seen in numerous present-day pens, particularly those from the top Italian manufacturers.