Product Description

This wonderful book has become the standard pocket guide in the field. It is just what collectors need for quick and easy reference...and its newly updated prices make it invaluable. Both handy and beautiful, it shows over 500 pens and pencils in nearly full-size color photos and provides short histories of nineteen main manufacturing companies. Concise, helpful information with each photo includes a guide to the price of each pen and pencil.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341583 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Stuart Schneider and George Fischler are both New Jersey residents who are nationally recognized as authorities in the area of fountian pens and other fine collectibles.

Customer Reviews

Take it with you!
This is a handy book to take with you when prowling the antique stores for old writing instruments. Recommended by collectors and collector clubs, it's the handiest guide available. If it had an index and covered more of the less well known brands, I would give it five stars.

This book is a great resource for beginning collectors.
With fountain pen collecting fast becoming more and more popular, Schneider & Fischler's Illustrated Guided to Antique Writing Instruments is a wonderful introductory text for both budding collectors or those who are merely curious. This book provides brief histories of the major pen manufacturers and color illustrations of fountain pens, pencils, and other writing tools. While I wouldn't call this the definitive book on the subject, it's certainly one of the best books to be had for the price. Highly recommended as a "first book."

A valuable guide to carry with you.
This is a valuable and handy pocket (briefcase, etc.) guide to take on a pen expedition. It's a bit big for anything but a large overcoat pocket but is handy when carried in a case. It is mostly a guide to the identification of some of the pens to be found at pen shows and elsewhere. There are brief histories of 18 fountain pen manufacturers but they are short to rudimentary. There is a short but to the point and valuable guide to how to grade a pen.

The rest of the book is devoted to colored photos of various fountain pens. The pictures are very good and the selection of pens shown is very good. The values shown are, like all prices shown in such books, progressively out of date. They are good though to give a relative value for pens.

This is an excellent book for its purpose - to help identify, grade and price used fountain pens. It does its specified purpose well. It's not meant to be an encyclopedia. Such a book would have to be a many volumn set.