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Here you’ll find my restored fountain pens — for sale, bargains, clearance, recent sales, and my personal collection — as well as Thoughts from my workbench. Please bookmark it, return regularly, and join my email list!

What’s new!

Dear Friends:

Welcome to Not Quite Autumn, my favorite time of year! It seems longer than three months since I last wrote to announce new inventory. After some summer down time for family vacation and travel to Germany, with fall rapidly approaching and the inventory shelves running low, it is time to replenish!  

This new batch, as usual, is a bit larger than the previous one and covers a wide range of brands in For Sale, particularly including an Aurora 88, a seldom seen Waterman Commando, a Melbi Transparent, various Parkers, Sheaffers, and Eversharps, in addition to seven new listings in Tim’s Bargains. There is also a new Thought about a wonderful pen history learning experience I had in Heidelberg, Germany. 

As always, do feel free to reach out to me if you have any fountain pen questions, whether general or guidance in purchasing from me or elsewhere. I always enjoy and learn from your questions and issues. If you’re considering selling one or more vintage pens, remember that I accept consignment sales as well! Finally, my repair queue is generally manageable, so feel free to let me know if you have repair needs.

How to Purchase a Pen

To purchase or inquire about a pen, please email me here or visit the Contact page and send me a note about which pen you wish to buy. When you’re ready to purchase, I will send an invoice. Details about purchasing and payment, warranty, and returns are here .

If you’re shopping for a present but don’t know what to purchase, Timsvintagepens will happily offer advice about an appropriate gift and also has gift certificates, available in any denomination you’d like, no extra charge, no expiration, just ask.

About Timsvintagepens

My journey in the fascinating world of fountain pens started with a Parker 21 in the 1960s. For the next forty years, I was a pen user, adding a Montblanc 149 and Pelikan 120 in 1970. In 2007, my tastes broadened with the addition of my late father-in-law’s Parker 51s, which kindled my need to know how pens worked and how to make them work better. In the years since, my pen use and broadening skills have blossomed into a fully-grown practice of restoring, repairing, and selling pens. With effort, much good teaching, and continual study, my skills have steadily become more sophisticated, so that I am now able to restore most vintage pens I see to a level of functioning and appearance that is at least as good as they were when new.

Timsvintagepens is a vintage practice in which I restore and sell what I find interesting. I work with a wide variety of American and European pens, generally from the 1910s-1970s, from the well-known Parkers and Sheaffers to the lesser known and less often seen, many of which suffered only from inadequate marketing. To me, vintage pens are endlessly fascinating objects, and enabling their return for new careers is my passion. In addition, I repair pens for customers, a part of my practice that always presents new challenges and satisfactions. Timsvintagepens is also available to inventory and curate vintage fountain pen collections in preparation for auction or sale.

Tim Ettenheim