The Writing Equipment Society (UK) established in 1980, has a membership of around 600 of whom 150 are overseas members, and is devoted to the conservation, study and collection of all types of writing equipment and associated material, including pens, both ancient and modern, pencils of all types and materials, nibs, inkwells, stamp boxes, quill cutters, seals, writing slopes, letter scales, paper knives and ephemera.
The society has two main objectives. First to record the history of writing equipment and to encourage the conservation of both utilitarian and fine items. Secondly to provide opportunities for collector to sell and exchange and to meet and correspond in an informal way.
The Journal of the Writing Equipment Society is published 3 times a year and is sent free to members. It publishes articles on a wide range of subjects relating to vintage and modern writing equipment, reports on meetings and letters from members. Reviews of new books appear frequently.

Pen Collectors of America PCA (USA): has developed from the Southern California Pen Collectors Club as a result of increasing national interest in vintage pen research and collecting. The club membership now exceeds 1,800 and the Reference Library contains over 10,000 pages on vintage pens. Member receive The Pennat 3 times a year and can order photocopies of the material of the Reference Library.

El club de la lapicera de Argentina is organised around Casa Pintos, Buenos Aires, but at the moment has not a website.

The prices don´t include shipping costs
Book
The Fountain Pen: A Collector's Companion.by Alexander Crum Ewing's. Nicely illustrated guide, primary focused on modern pens but with considerable information on vintage and pen companies as well. US$ 28

  Periodicals back issues 

Issue

Feature articles

Journal of the Writing Equipment Society (English)  (at 5 US$ each issue)
Main focus on vintage writing equipment instruments
(complete index can be found at http://www.wesonline.org.uk/acatalog/WES_Journal_Index.html )

64 Summer 2004

Elephant inkwells, Inkstands from the porcelain factory of Fürstenberg, The golden age of French pump inkwells.

66 Spring 2003

Ford´s Patent pen Adventures with the pen prophet Charles de Jaeger Museum of Writing

67 Summer 2003

Writing instruments from Cartier, The ultimate Parker 51, A fountain pen manufactured in mandatory Palestine and Israel, Nibs! What a passion!

68 Autumn 2003

Conway Stewart boxed sets (number index) Illustrated alphabets (The) Magic Slate, Inadequacies of writing instrument design and manufacture, Pencil it in (Faber Castell), Nibs! What a passion, Types, shapes and functions (continued), The  museum of writing

70 Summer 2004

About ink cakes, (The) Art of the handwritten note,  Introducing the Yoropen, (The) First piece in my collection, or what started me collecting, (The) First propelling pencil?, Nibs! What a passion, Roses, swans & crowned heads, (continued), Macniven and Cameron´s Waverley pen,  The blackbird topfillers, The first propelling pencil?, Casein in writing equipment

72 Spring 2005

A brief history of inkwells and inkhorns in the Museum of writing,  Fluted writing points, The Rolls Royce of pencil sharpeners, Steel nibs: a Boulogne industry, Nibs (part 6)

73 Summer 2005

The Parker 71, Chinese fountain pens, The quill, Pen mechanisms

74 Winter 2005

Potted history of Burnham 1920 - 1966, The myth of the breather hole, Her nibs, Wire pen nibs in the Parker experimental archive, Life before the fountain pen, Omas, Conway Stewart Centennary, The story behind the little globe, What is a genuine prototype, The big scribble,.

75 Spring 2006

Conway Stewart, Parker experimental nibs, Nibs, Museum of writing
76 Summer 2006
Sabretaches, Early portable copying machines, The Stephens button filler, Stamp boxes, Pen nib archaeology, Alexander Munro´s ¨research´ fountain pen, MOntblanc 100 years, Batemans - the home of Rudyard Kipling, More about inks, Parker experimental nibs- part 2.

77 Winter 2006

The slate pencil, The nature of Chinese calligraphy, In praise of Parker 41

78 Spring 2007

Sampson Mordan, Stamp box study circle, The making of Waterman hard rubber pens, The ultimate Parker 51 desk set, A Montblanc architect´s pen, Tips and tricks of the repair bench

79 Summer 2007

Sampsom Mordan (part two), Biro aeroplane, Tips and tricks of the repair bench (part two
80 Winter 2007
London WES show, A prototype Parker 61, Onoto mammoth desk set, Penol - an offspring of the depression Tips and tricks from the repair bench, Cracked ice update, Cryptopenology VII, Brandauer & Co´s Scotish nibs.

Pen World (Inglés, 4 US$ cada número)

Principalmente instrumentos de escritura de producción actual y su mercado

Mar Apr 1998

Visconti, paperweights, Victorian pencils, Space pens

Sept Oct 1999

100years of pens,

Mar Apr 2000

Special dip pen issue

Feb Mar 2002

Pelikan 1935, Maki-e Magic

Agos Sep 2003

Golf S.T. Dupont & Leroy Neiman, Namiki, Parker 51

Oct 2003

Montegrappa White Nights, Eversharp Skyline

Apr May 2004

Cartier Trinity pens, Parker in UK part 1, Caw´s & Mackinnon

August Sept 2004

Flexible nibs, Parker in UK part 2, The 51 before 1941

Sept 2006

Visconti, Eclipse

Pen Plus Magazine(Alemán y alemán-inglés 3 US$ cada número)

Principalmente instrumentos de escritura de producción actual y su mercado

May 1996

Ercollessi Omas (alemán)

September 1996

Pelikan (alemán)

Mar Apr May 2000

Montblanc Madame de Pompadour (alemán)

Sep Oct Nov 2000

Pilot capless pen (alemán e inglés)

The Pennant (Inglés, 4 US$ cada número)

(Publicada por The Pen Collectors of America, Inc)

Vol VIII,  N°4,1994

Sterling dip pens, Notes from the nib works: the upsweep, A filler tube alignment pliers for Snorkel repairs

Vol X, N°2, 1996

The Duofold Story: part II,  The fifth Conklin filling system, Anatomy of a nib, Fountain pen bunk, Suggestions about buying old fountain pens

Stylus (Inglés, 4 US$ cada número)

(Publicada por Fine Life Media, Canada)

April May 2006

The fleet race limited edition. Ink filling systems, Quest for the spirit - The psychology of collecting pens, Painted pens- Kinsey´s Russian treasures, Watches and pens what´s the connection?

Catálogos de remates(Inglés, precio indicado individualmente)

Auctions house

Sale

Date

Number of lots

Price

Cooper Owen

Fountain pens

October 2003

903 lots

20 US$

Bloomsbury auctions

Fountain pens

October 2004

1042 lots

20 US$

Bloomsbury auctions

Fountain pens

April 2005

700 lots

20 US$

Bloomsbury auctions

Fountain pens

December 2005

489 lots

18 US$

Bloomsbury auctions

Collectors sale

March 2007

287 pen lots (total 869)

12 US$

Bloomsbury auctions

Collectors sale

September 2007

232 pen lots (total 1007)

12 US$