Esterbrook Pen Nibs 1940s/1950s
Takes me back to my junior school days in the 1950s with dip pens and the ink monitor filling up the ink wells in our desks from a big bottle.
Richard Esterbrook, an English Quaker, started manufacturing steel pens in 1858 in America, with a factory established in Great Britain in 1896. The packet states the nibs cost 7.5 old pence (2.5 new pence equals 6 old pence) including purchase tax. Purchase tax was introduced in Britain in 1940, levied on the wholesale value of luxury goods in order to reduce wastage of raw materials. It lasted until 1973 until Britain joined the then European Economic Community when it was replaced by VAT. I suspect this packet dates from the 1940s/1950s.
Esterbrook Pen Nibs 1940s/1950s
Takes me back to my junior school days in the 1950s with dip pens and the ink monitor filling up the ink wells in our desks from a big bottle.
Richard Esterbrook, an English Quaker, started manufacturing steel pens in 1858 in America, with a factory established in Great Britain in 1896. The packet states the nibs cost 7.5 old pence (2.5 new pence equals 6 old pence) including purchase tax. Purchase tax was introduced in Britain in 1940, levied on the wholesale value of luxury goods in order to reduce wastage of raw materials. It lasted until 1973 until Britain joined the then European Economic Community when it was replaced by VAT. I suspect this packet dates from the 1940s/1950s.