I am fortunate to own a number of Bexley pens.
Bexley is an American company that was founded in the 1990s by a number of fountain pen enthusiasts, chief among them the founder, Howard Levy. The company started out by making classic designs in traditional materials and colours (such as ebonite and mandarin yellow and orange, for example). Over the past few years, it has started to issue an Owner’s Club limited edition pen (or two) each year that is first made available to current Bexley owners and then the public.
Mr. Levy is also famous for showing up at pen shows with small numbers of non-standard production models – different colours and/or materials – some in numbered editions and others as unmarked “prototypes” (or selling them through an Ebay seller by the name of outletline).
Bexley pens sell in a number of different price ranges, offering a variety of colours and nibs and thus serving a wide range of customers. It is rare to hear a complaint about the quality of a Bexley pen, especially their nibs, which are universally held in high regard (and I believe are manufactured by Peter Bock AG). One of their most popular nibs is an unusual broad stub nib that is about 1.3 mm wide. In fact, the broad stub is one of my personal favourites – while I have a variety of nib sizes in my Bexley, the broad stub outnumbers the rest by far!!
I am not going to review each and every Bexley that I own, rather their pictures are posted below and I will make the occasional comment on them.
The first one of note is Bexley’s 10th Anniversary pen; the available colours are shown below – I own one of the red ebonite models.
Next up is the 2005 Parkville Pen Limited Edition in Jungle Green - I own #06/25.
As I mentioned before, Bexley began an Owner’s Club limited edition program for Bexley owners, starting in 2006. Of particular note about this pen is that it uses a vacumatic filling system! Two choices were available – amber (very nice) but I went with the silver.
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