Ballpoints
Herringbone
Mark Twain Signature
Victory Set

Rollerballs
Herringbone
Mark Twain Signature

Fountain Pens
Herringbone
Mark Twain Signature
Victory Set

Conklin Timeline

1891 - Roy Conklin is granted his first fountain pen patent.

1898 - Roy Conklin founds the Self Fountain Pen Co.

1901 - Conklin patents the Crescent Filler for what is now the Conklin Pen Manufacturing Co. Additional patents are issued him in 1903 and 1904.

1903 - The company, expands its advertising and marketing, including an endorsement by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).

1916 - Conklin develops a patented spring loaded pocket clip.

1920's - Conklin begins exporting pens to Europe and South America.

1921 - The Crescent Filler is the top selling pen on the market. While the pen is mechanically superior to the Sheaffer Lever Filler, however, the popularity of the Sheaffer pen leads Conklin to design a lever filling pen.

1923 - The Duragraph is introduced. It is a well made and efficient lever filler, which leads to the development of the Endura in 1924.

1929 - Conklin’s first streamlined pen, the Symetrik, is introduced.

1931 - The Nozac is introduced. A technologically advanced, streamline model with an inventive piston filling mechanism, it is followed with a “word gauge” model in 1934.

1938 - Conklin is sold to a Chicago Syndicate.

1955 - Production of all Conklin models ceases.

2000 - Carefully following the original designs and utilizing artesian craftsmanship, Conklin is revived as the Conklin Pen Co., Inc.