Trick or Treat!

By Don Nelson

Oct. 31, 2000

Is life too short to carry an ugly pen?

Happy Halloween, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of strange pens.

If you have some better examples, let us know!

“World’s Ugliest Pen”: a black lacquered pen with gold trim, painted with red blossoms and bamboo

A pink Moonbeam Pen of golden-trimmed Lucite, made of three bulbous segments, with its box

A Silver Bic Argento 925 pen in its presentation box with a certificate

A white Bic Round Stic with a blue cap, fitted with a fountain pen nib

Close-up of the Bic logo engraved on the sterling silver barrel

A carved pen shaped as a caricature of a uniformed general in a kepi