Dallas Pen Collectors club met on Wednesday, 06 February 2013

Dallas Pen Collectors club met on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 and was attended by approximately 75 people. Pens for sale were displayed on tables. The club library was available to members. Tickets were distributed to every attendee and ticket stubs drawn to award two door prizes.

Mike Stein led a program about pen ephemera. Ephemera is something originally intended to have no lasting value, typically used for a brief period of time then thrown away, that has become a collectable. Mike and other club members showed a variety of ephemeron related to pens that included:

• Advertising in magazines – some examples were from Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic
  
• Point-of-sale displays
  
• Machine that demonstrates how a pen writes on a roll of paper
  
• Christmas advertising mobile with spinning ornaments 
  
• Catalogs – a catalog that is 100 years old was shown
  
• Stamps that were intended to be placed on a calendar as reminders to purchase pens for gifts
  
• Ink wells that held ink to dip test pens at sales counter
  
• Ink wells for display on a desk
  
• Boxes in which pens were delivered to customer
  
• Instruction sheets that were packed in box in which pen was sold
  
• Giant Styrofoam replica of a pen
  
• Objects such as banks and dolls or action figures that compliment or enhance a pen display
  

The Dallas Pen Club meets in the Holiday Inn at 1665 North Central Expressway in Richardson, Texas. The next meeting will be 03 April 2013 (the first Wednesday night) beginning at 7:00 PM. This club hosts the annual Dallas Pen Show. Additional information is available at http://www.dallaspenshow.com/ and at http://www.meetup.com/DallasPenClub/.