More Mail, More Dip-Less

The six-part series on dip-less (or one-dip) fountain pens garnered some major attention through its run from October 2023 through August 2024 (Vol. 36 No. 6 Vol. 37 No. 5).

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Forgotten History: One-Dip Desk Sets by Richard Binder and David Watts, Jr., was released at the beginning of October 2024 as an e-book through major e-book retailers and richardspens.​com for $5.99 and in printed form through Amazon and Barnes & Noble for $29.95. Some of the photography and insights from our readers and the responses from Binder (italicized) are printed here:

Just when Richard Binder's series on dip-less pens concluded, this picture appeared in the summer edition of The University of Chicago Magazine (their magazine for alumni) showing Enrico Fermi at the controls of a synchrotron around 1950. Note the dip-less pen on the counter.

E. J. Deal

Shrewsbury, Missouri

The desk set is a Sengbusch HP-3. The big machine is a synchrocyclotron, $2.5 million-worth of atom smashing at Fermi's fingertips. It was dedicated May 16, 1951.

I have really enjoyed the articles on dip-less pens in Pen World Magazine. Richard Binder and David Watts, Jr., have prepared another riveting series on antique pens.