My lovely husband found this little TOT stapler with a petite carrying case at a garage sale this weekend. It’s in great shape with a box of coveted TOT 50 staples which will be freely distributed amongst my collection of other TOT staplers. This will become my travel stapler since it had such a nice…
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Autopoint Overload
You may recall the megaton of vintage office supplies I got last week? Well… that wasn’t everything. In my opinion, I saved the best for last. In the bounty was not one but eight different advertising mechanical pencils all from Autopoint. Yep, the same company that is still in business making the beloved Twinpoint. These…
Vintage Office Supply Overdose
My husband’s friend was kind enough to pass along an enormous collection of vintage office supplies from her father and grandfather’s collection. The Denver Post pencil, the fountain pen, ruler and letter opener belonged to her grandfather, Carl P. Stangel, who was an architect in Omaha, NE. Many of the other pieces came from her father…
Ko-Rec-Type
A recent thrift score was this box of unused Ko-Rec-Type, typewriter printing error correction paper. The concept behind this material was to back space over to your mistype, insert this white paper into the typewriter, retype the mistyped characters, thereby “deleting” the original letters as the Ko-Rec-Type has white film that would cover your mistake.…
Link Love: All Write, all write!
(Links for images in the collage above are all listed in the links below) Today’s Link Love is all writing instruments! Pencils Links: Turn paper into pencils (via Office Supplies Junkie) Moleskine Highlighter Pencils (via NoteMaker) Gorgeous Vintage Pencils (via Present and Correct) Pen Links: An interview with Michael Gutberlet of Kaweco (via Jet Pens)…
My Vintage Esterbrook Fountain Pens
For sometime now, I’ve been collecting vintage Esterbrook fountain pens. They were my introduction to budget fountain pens and the wide array of nibs that were available for them. Not to mention that those celluloid colors really are lovely. If you’re not familiar with Esterbrooks, they were fountain pens sold from 1948 through the early…
Check out this lovely photo from Rhodia Drive of a sales display from the past — maybe the 40s. I love the notebooks in the center while the ones along the edge don’t look all that different from the Rhodia notebooks sold today. Pretty cool, huh? (via Rhodia Drive)