Over the years Pelikan has been very active, introducing several kinds of Special and Limited Editions We will define those terms so the collector and casual user can discern their history and, hence, their value. What makes a Limited Edition different, what is a Special Edition, why is one Special Edition different from another, and how does this affect their value in the future?

Tom will have many examples from his personal collection on display for close inspection.

Tom Baley’s great aunt taught him to use fountain pens in the late 1950s and gave him a Scheaffer school pen. He bought his first fountain pen in the fall of 1966, became an avid accumulator (undisciplined collector), stopped collecting for 25 years to raise three boys, resumed collecting with several focuses, always narrowing the emphasis, eventually to Pelikans, both vintage and new. Three years ago he founded The Pen Man.