Making Antler Ball Point Pens
Antler ball point pens are handcrafted and make great gifts. These antler pens will be collectibles that will be passed on through the family. Watch the video below to see how these keepsakes are made.
The ball point pen was invented in 1888 when John Loud, an American leather tanner, patented a roller-ball-tip marking pen. The invention of Loud featured a reservoir of ink and a roller ball that applied the thick ink to leather hides. Unfortunately,John Loud’s pen was never produced, nor were any of the other 350 patents for ball-type pens issued over the next thirty years. The problem was with the ink either being too thin and leaking or too thick and clogging up the pen. Ladislas Biro and his brother, Georg redesigned the pen in 1935. After meeting the president of Argentinia, they began to produce the pens in a factory in 1943 in Argentina. Milton Reynolds became the first American manufacturer to market a ballpoint pen successfully.