journeyman
Posted 29 July 2014 - 12:04 AM
ran across this pic from the britannica website of calvin coolidge signing a document with what seems to be a small baseball bat 
the year is 1929 and the document is the kellogg-briand pact.
what pen do you suppose it is? should be a desk pen, but i don't see a taper.
journeyman
Posted 29 July 2014 - 09:52 AM
ran across this pic from the britannica website of calvin coolidge signing a document with what seems to be a small baseball bat
what pen do you suppose it is? should be a desk pen, but i don't see a taper.
Super photo thanks for posting it.
It does remind me of Dorothy Parker's observation on being informed that Calvin Coolidge was dead.
"How can they tell?" she asked.
Cob
Edited by Cob, 29 July 2014 - 09:53 AM.
journeyman
Posted 29 July 2014 - 01:55 PM
Edited by penmanila, 29 July 2014 - 01:57 PM.
journeyman
Posted 29 July 2014 - 09:15 PM
Could that pen / mini baseball bat be a Waterman 20 ? Can't think of anything else that size except perhaps the largest Dunn Dreadnought.
Fire extinguisher at the ready for when I'm shot down.......
Edited by vintage penman, 29 July 2014 - 09:16 PM.
journeyman
Posted 31 July 2014 - 12:16 AM
Coolidge was the very opposite of garrulous, and my favorite Coolidge story has him being approached by a man who says, "Mr. President, I just made a bet with a friend that I could make you say three words!" Coolidge looks at him and says: "You lose."
Great stuff!
Was it Coolidge too in the tale where someone said he asked what Coolidge (if indeed it was he) thought about sin? A third party asked "What did he say?"
"He said he was agin' it."
Cob
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