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Welcome Back Returning Pen Friends and Hello To Our New Pen Friends! Here is your information packet for this year’s show. Once again, we are expecting tremendous turnout and a fantastic show and we thank you for joining us for this most exciting event.

Our sponsors, Delta Pens, are providing a fabulous bottle as a souvenir of your pen show weekend. It will be available to exhibitors, Weekend Traders, and 200 public admissions both Saturday and Sunday. Please take the time to see their products and thank them personally

We have a great line-up of events for this year’s show:

Friday Afternoon between 6 and 7, there is a Welcome Party with beer, wine, and Pizza in the foyer of the ballroom. I’m sure you agree that a pen show is only partly about buying, selling and trading pens. What makes a show memorable is the quality time we spend with others who share our passion for collecting pens. The welcome party is an important time for us to mingle, see old friends, meet new people and generally get ‘in the swing’ for the weekend. EVERYONE IS INVITED - even those who are staying at other . Free Monteverde Refills for your favorate pen hotels.

Note: Please No Counterfeit Security Alert items of any kind are allowed If you spot something suspicious, Jim’s cell phone is in the show 202-437-1714.

O F SPECIAL NOTE Seminars/Workshops Jeff and Emilie Hancock (my terrific Nephew Copperplate and and Niece are at the front desk and ink tables. Italics by Deborah New this year will be Pat, Star and Jeannie from my church group in Greenville, SC, Basel expecially for Brookwoodchurch.org users two 4h Workshops $45 ea Friday Special News Flash

 Yafa, our show sponsor, will now be distributing Conklin. Stop by the Conklin table and see their new products and ask about the new Conklin Collectors’s Club.

Show News

 New Food Available Outside the Trading Room Friday. We realize that you do not want to leave your table for long periods of time for lunch. For your convenience, we have made special arrangements to have moderately priced sandwiches, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets available just outside the ballroom on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Excellent Pizza is available from room service and at the lobby restaurant.  Security: Our veteran security Laurie and Jim will be back, so please be sure and say “Hi All bad guys should be aware that in addition to the sharp-eyed officers on the floor there will be a security officer in the balcony part of the time with binoculars. Security will be provided in the ballrooms Saturday night.  Security Watch Saturday Morning. This year we are asking all exhibitors to especially be vigilant during the first ½ hr of the show. If you spot anything, please try to get one of the guard’s attentions.  Shuttle to Dulles – sign up at the Concierge desk for return shuttle service to the airport. Make Ink Testing and Sampling your own Table ink sample Part of the Ink Testing area with over 250+ bottles of Ink open for testing color and evaluation with steel dip pens and q-tips. The Ink Tables were a highlight of the show, attracting ink doodlers day and night. charts

New this year will be 60 colors of Diamonte and a special offer on Diamonte ink for the DC Show Baltimore’s Terri Bennett will be around to answer questions about ink and where at the show to buy the ink.

Fantastic Taccia Leather Pen Pouches Free with Purchase of their new Taccia Merit Fountain Pen at the DC Show

Surprise 89th Birthday Party for Abe Schwartz

Abe’s 89 birthday will fall during the show and Abe will be traveling from Atlanta with his Daughter, Lisa Gordon and grandson, Coleman Gordon. Our annual welcome to the show party Friday between 6 and 7pm will be dedicated to Abe’s 89th birthday.

Abe in 2007. He was wearing his B-29 8th Air Force WW2 hat. I was with Abe in his wheel chair at the LA airport when two different pilots came up and Abe’s 90th birthday party at the Ritz in 1990 thanked him for his service in WW II.

Book Signings Marshall, Lehrer, Overbury, and Larquin will be in DC and signing their books ------

Fantastic New Pen Repair Book by Jim Marshall Repairing Vintage Onoto Pens $20 Special DC Intro price $15

The worlds most important Book on Waterman's "Waterman Past and Present" The First Six Decades By Max Davis & Gary Lehrer

Waterman Book Contents Vintage Pens, , Pen Combo, Blotters, Pen Sets, Shop Displays, Advertising, Nibs, Booklets, Envelopes, Ephemera, Invoices, Jewelry, Letter, Postcards, Leads, Tokens, Pen Boxes, Pen Cases, Desk Sets, Dr Set, Nurses Set, Waterman Ink Bottles and Ink Wells.

Stephen Overbury's original pioneering book about makie lacquer fountain pens has been on sale during the last five years for $1,000 a copy exclusively through his website. It has now been reissued with a substantial amount of never before published important information on the topic and will be available at the Washington Supershow for a price of $175. Only 2,000 hardcover copies will be available. Limited of one per person. Co-authored by Julia Hutt, the head curator of the Japanese department of the world-famous Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At an unbeatable price for those attending the Washington Supershow in person. Plus, the first 500 purchasers will also be given a bonus surprise publication about lacquer pens and shipping world-wide will be free! Be sure to meet Stephen Overbury in person at the Supershow. Writing Accessories By Jim Marshall Jim Marshall has just introduced the 4th volume of the Monograph series ‘Writing Accessories’ and this is by far the most comprehensive th booklet yet produced on the items used from the late 18 century. It is written with the beginner in mind but it contains a wealth of information and images , that tempt even the established collector. From the ‘Writing Place’ and desk furniture’ it covers the materials

such as parchment, parchment runners, rulers & liners, paper, pounce, sanders, , nibs, nibbers, quill knives, erasers, paperweights,

glue pots, dip pens, nibs, writing furniture, writing cases, blotters, pen wipes, clips, pen racks, trays, tidys, desk lights.

The despatch of letters is not ignored with consideration of

wafers, wafer seals, sealing wax holders, seals, wax jacks, bougie boxes, stamp wetters, stamp boxes and postal scales. While the receipt is also covered with seal chisels and paper knives. A WONDERFUL book by Christophe Larquemin Namiki pens as you have never seen

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE OF $450.00 David Ushkow Pen-Site

Free Coffee Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Coffee will be available in front of the main ballroom

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, compliments of Dale Bebee, the pen tool man in the foyer([email protected]), and Taccia who will be introducing two new lines of pens at the show. Taccia will also be giving away a free leather

pen pouch with every Taccia Merit Fountain Pen purchase at the show.

Special Pen Collector’s of America Pens For Kids Seminar Saturday and Sunday at New Super Tool at the pen 1pm show desk Free Pen for all attendees

Come(any age) to learn about fountain pens, especially family Drawing Saturday for a Free Ghostwriter set at Pens for Kids. members that want to become more familiar with a spouses hobby The drawing will be Saturday only Pens for Kids is a program of the Pen Collectors of America to promote handwriting, personal expression through writing, and love of writing instruments in young people. The Pens for Kidsprogram is helping foster a love of pens in the next generation. The workshops were designed to foster an interest in pens and pen collecting in the nextgeneration. The Pens for Kids workshops also stressed the importance of handwritingand personal expression in communication.The workshops were open to “kids of all ages.” The hour-long workshop will feature a slide presentation with a brief history of pens, slides of various styles of pens, and images of nibs and filling mechanisms. Each attendee received a student fountain pen. Participants used their new pens in a handwriting exercise, and were given a Pens for Kids note card so they could pen a personal note to a friend or family member.