Wirt Pen Gallery

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	This filigree "cone" style slip cap Wirt pen was in a house a few miles from where I live. I went on a house call to look at some radios and cameras and a few fountain pens. The man handed me a paper bag and underneath the Esterbrooks and Skylines was this great pen. Circa 1905.
This pair of Wirt pens were made in the early 1930s. The caps and barrels were formed by wrapping celluloid sheets around a mandrel. This ended cutting rods on lathes to make the caps and barrels.
	This is a pair of early Wirt hard rubber eyedropper fill pens. They have six sides and early imprints. Circa 1880s.
This is a Wirt safety pen in BCHR. Wirt had installed a rod inside the cap which closed a valve in the section to cut off ink flow. Circa 1908.
	This is a late Wirt lever fill pen in end of the day celluloid. Late generic clasp style clip. circa 1930s.
Late 1920s celluloid pen in discolored grey. Not a great example but unusual as it has 2 cap bands.
	Red and black mottled lever fill pen with heavily tarnished nickel trim. Early 1920s.
Silver and grey marbled celluloid with red specks. Late 1920s.
	Beautiful overlay eyedropper fill pen from around 1910. The rarest of all Wirt clips, the gold filled Wirt marked VV clip.
Paul Wirt eyedropper fill fountain pen in black hard rubber with a cable twist design on the barrel. Circa 1900.
	Some people have written that Wirt lacked self fillers before the 1920s. I have found this to be inaccurate. Here is an unused example of a Paul Wirt Self Filling Fountain Pen. It is a hump filler with a locking device that slides under the lower end of the hump & is released by turning the knob on the end of the barrel. You can see, in the 3rd photo, the locking device is in place. In the 4th photo, it has been unlocked & the pen is ready to be filled by pushing in the hump. Circa 1908. Bottom photo is the drawing from the basic patent for this pen.
Paul Wirt Fountain Pen & Pencil set in brown striped celluloid from the 1930s. Wirt pencils are very difficult to find. This set has clasp style clips.
	2 Paul E. Wirt taper cap eyedropper fill fountain pens. One is black hard rubber & the other is chased. Circa 1905.
2 Paul Wirt mottled hard rubber eyedropper fill fountain pens. Circa 1910.
	2 Paul E. Wirt Oversize lever fill fountain pens in mottled hard rubber from the early 1920s.
A pair of Paul Wirt mottled hard rubber eyedropper filled fountain pens from the 1890s.
	Beautiful hand engraved overlay ringtop fountain pen by Paul E Wirt. 1920s.
Ringtop Wirt Fountain pen with gold filled overlay. 1920s. I have never seen a mans version of this overlay.
	Soft green celluloid Wirt Fountain Pen from late 1920s.
Red veined celluloid Paul Wirt Fountain Pen from the late 1920s.
	Oversize pearl & black celluloid pens from around 1927.
Paul Wirt fountain pen in green celluloid with brown veins.
	1890s eyedropper fill pen with an 8 sided barrel of alternating slabs of mother of pearl & abalone.
U.S. Senate imprint on a Paul E. Wirt eyedropper fountain pen. These pens were special ordered for the US senate.
	Rare Paul Wirt blue celluloid desk fountain pen from late 1920s. I'm saving the photo of the original base for a book on Wirt pens.
Group of rare Wirt hump filling fountain pens. This filler was similar to the Conklin crescent filler and the Greishaber self filler. Circa 1908.
	Original Paul Wirt price band on a black chased hard rubber pen stating the price of the clip.
Another original Wirt price band.
	Hand written Paul Wirt price bands. I have found these on many unused Wirt pens.
Mint & Unused Pens from the Paul Wirt Fountain Pen factory. A local antique dealer uncovered a large amount of old stock back in the 1990s. I was lucky to have purchased some of it from him.
	More black hard rubber pens from the factory. I'm still making plans about what to do with these pens.