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== Esther Brooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. What is the most interesting or expensive Esther Brooks that you have ever come into contact with?

'''Jessica Coles:''' Well, right now I do have an Esther Brooks that was a relief pen made in England. Not many were made in England. Most were made in the U S. Um, and it was made during the war. Um, that's the only time really that they made gold knit pens. Um, and that was because they were saving all of the steel. So actually it was more accessible for them to use gold than steel at the time. Um, well, you can't, you know, make tanks out of steel, out of gold. You don't want to do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It would look kind of cool, but like it wouldn't go very far.

'''Jessica Coles:''' It did look pretty. I think it wouldn't, um, make it very long though. Yeah. Um, but the, uh, you know, the, the celluloid on that pen, um, is still an amazing shape. There's gold that is still an amazing shape. Um, and, uh, wow. To know that that has lasted that long in that kind of condition is amazing. But, um, that's probably the rarest one that I have right now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because of it, because of the gold, right? Because they were going to make them for a short period of time.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Yeah. There just weren't that many made. Yeah. Um, I think people hoard them and put them aside.

'''Anna Reinhardt:''' And I don't know that I've ever seen an Estherbrook gold nib before.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Well, you haven't been looking at my table very well. It's been over there.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Sorry. I really do appreciate you guys. I enjoy it, but you know, it is pretty easy to, to jab it at a few of those things. Fair enough. Fair enough.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, Jesse, I think people can go to, uh, vintagepenshop.com, right? Which is an incredible URL that is very good. Very good. Thank you. Tell me about your other URL. Yeah.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Oh, yes. My other URL. I have it. I have the domain name, uh, jesterbrook.com.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' jesterbrook.com. Oh, yeah. Because of Anna. That's great.

'''Jessica Coles:''' She made me do it. We, we've come up with all kinds of URL ideas late at night, usually with wine involved.

'''Anna Reinhardt:''' That's a recurring theme between our guests today. So everyone work on your, your drinking problems.

'''Jessica Coles:''' I didn't call it a drinking solution.

'''Anna Reinhardt:''' That's right.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Drinking solutions. Oh my gosh. Okay. So, um, uh, a friend, Franklin, he's on the Slack as pens in. No pictures. I have to be careful with that.

'''Anna Reinhardt:''' Um, thank you. Thank you for that.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Yeah. He, he totally did that on purpose. Um, he, uh, he was thankful that I was trying to, um, get some Franklin Kristoff pens for him. And, uh, he said, you know, when are you arriving? And I, I told him when I'd probably get into the hotel. And he said, just wait. He said, when you get to the front desk, ask for your package. So I did. And, uh, it was a box still cold. Um, opened up the box and yeah, you can feel the cold air coming out of it and open it up. And there's this huge cheesecake and it's just now finishing defrosting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' A cheesecake is a very aggressive. Thank you.

'''Jessica Coles:''' Oh my gosh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like an entire cheesecake is like a, it's like a very serious. Thank you.

'''Jessica Coles:''' He has absolutely said thank you in, I believe it. In pounds of dairy. Oh my gosh. So yeah, uh, Anna and I went and got coffee and came back to the hotel room. Oh yeah. Two forks. And came back to the hotel room, put the cheesecake in between us, coffee on each side. And we dug in. I've never done that before. And I'll just dig into a cake from the side. My gosh.

'''Jessica Coles:''' It was decadent.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And that's what pin shows are all about. Exactly. Everybody give a huge round of applause for Jesse. Thank you so much.

'''Jessica Coles:''' You're very welcome. Thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we're going to wrap up today's episode now. Just once again, thank you so much to all of our Kickstarter backers who help make this possible. As they do every year. This year is a special one. Five years is special. And everybody gave us such incredible support to do this. So thank you all again for helping us get here and to do this for you. And we hope that this episode and the video when you see it is going to be worth it for you. So thank you so much for helping us do that. Thank you. Thank you to our wonderful studio audience. Studio. Stephen said that earlier. It's not a studio. This is the room. Not a studio. It's not a studio. Ballroom audience. Ballroom audience for joining us. Thank you to our wonderful guests. I want to thank Anna and Brad, as always, for joining us. Thanks to our sponsors, Define, Feeport, Squarespace, and ExpressVPN. And I think that's about it for the episode, Brad. What do you think? I think it is. All right. We'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, everybody. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye, everybody.

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