Collecting Vintage Fountain Pens For Beginners

Fred Peters asked: There are several types of fountain pens that you can begin collecting. This article focuses on collecting vintage fountain pens, but you should know that there are also custom fountain pens, collectible fountain pens, and modern fountain pens. We will focus on helping beginners to get strarted collecting vintage fountain pens.Pen collectors [...]



How To Tell If the Signatures on Old Stock Certificates are Authentic

Larry Crain asked: How can you determine if the signatures on a collectible stock certificate are authentic autographs?  First, there’s good news.  Scripophily (the collecting of antique stock certificates and bonds) does not generally have the rampant forgery or mechanized signature issues of some other collectible fields (e.g., signed sports collectibles). The question to be answered [...]



Dr. Color Path: Cosmetic Surgeon of Photographs

Dewan Shuvo asked: Sometimes you may find some defects or lacking in a picture making your precious memory dull. Want to make it after your mind and more treasured? Or, you are not satisfied with an image which you want to use in a magazine cover or advertisement. May be it is okay but for [...]



Refilling The Omas Fountain Pen

Arthur Mavericck asked: The Omas fountain pen can be refilled in a variety of ways. The vintage pens might require you to use a dropper to fill ink into them. Then you also have the self-filling fountain pens which empty or fill when you apply pressure on the sac or the lever that encases it. [...]



President’s Vintage Signatures: Authentic or Not?

Diane Downey asked: 1. Handwritten DocumentsIt was common in the eighteenth-century for presidents to have secretarial copies made of all their important papers to be kept on file. The secretaries would copy the documents in their own handwriting, sign the president’s name, and below that signature, sign their own. This accounts for the “G. Washington” [...]