Conklin Nozac

This Conklin Nozac 7M Word Gauge red, white and black Chevron (Herringbone) Cushion Point pen and pencil set dates from 1936. If you bought a WES Calendar for this year, you would find this pen in there. I first saw the design illustrated in Lambrou’s ‘Fountain Pens of the World’ and thought it was an absolute knockout. If you want to talk Vintage Pen Eye Candy, this is up there with the best. Everybody else who has looked at the pen thinks it is a stunner too!
There were a series of other attractive Nozacs although none has the immediacy of impact of the red, white and black. Some examples are shown in another of the images.
It is so sad that Conklin never managed to achieve as their more commercially successful brethren despite such an attractive design. They didn’t have the ability to invest in the publicity. It must have been galling for the people inside the Company to have had such a product but not to have been able to exploit it as it deserved.
In 1938, the company was sold to a syndicate who moved it from its home in Toledo to Chicago and took the product down market. Their efforts were not successful, and production ceased around 1948.
These pens are for your interest and are not for sale.