The new Wearever pen company
(https://weareverpensofficial.com/)
Well, another vintage fountain pen brand has just been revived and I’m interested to hear other people’s opinions…
My take:
I have several vintage Wearevers that I acquired in my early days of collecting fountain pens. Wearever was considered a third-tier manufacturer, but some of the earlier Wearevers were actually very attractive (e.g. faceted multicolor pens, pens made from beautiful striped plastics, pens that had faux abalone chips in the material, et al). Their later models (before the company folded) were generic looking offerings—plain (monocolor) plastic bodies with cheap-looking metal caps. Wearevers were bargain-priced compared to their first- and second-tier vintage competitors.
These newly-revived Wearever fountain pens with “German-made 14kt gold-plated nib(s)” retail for $160 USD. Price aside, I cannot fathom why they decided to go with possibly *the* most generic-looking fountain pen I’ve seen in recent memory. 🙄
Actually, I shouldn’t be surprised— the owner of the new Wearever brand also revived Esterbrook (before selling it to Kenro) and those early revived Esterbrooks were very drab/generic-looking and looked nothing like vintage Esterbrooks (mind you, the current Esterbrooks look nothing like their vintage counterparts, but at least they’re stylish and attractive 😂)