PaulWirt.com
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Paul Wirt Fountain Pen
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The former Paul Wirt pen factory is over 100 years old & is still standing. The 2 story wood building is used today as an apartment building. It has had some modifications over the years, but basically it looks much the same as when Paul Wirt first used it back in the 1800s.
The Paul E. Wirt Fountain Pen Company began manufacturing fountain pens in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania in the early 1880s. They may have been the largest producers of fountain pens during the next two decades. At that time, only L. E. Waterman Pen Company reached similar production levels.
Early Wirt pens were all eyedropper fill pens in black or red & black mottled hard rubber. These early pens were overfeed models - having the feed located on top of the nib. Later, when Wirt offered a traditional under feed pen, it was fairly unique in that it did not have a breather hole in the nib. It was vented through a hole in the feed. While some people have speculated that Wirt may have fell behind in the pen race because he was slow to offer self-filling pens, this information is simply not correct as Wirt was offering self-fillers as early as 1903.
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