Great Pen Stores - Stores of Note - Austria

Vienna, Austria

Wiener Füllfeder Werkstatt

Lerchenfelderstrasse 29
1070 Wien, Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43 (1) 513 81 50

Website is: http://www.grasshopper.at/new/07_FF/FF_01.html

email Georg@grasshopper.at

I have received a note advising that Leo's has relocated his store. His new store is more inviting and spacious so there is more space to show his selection. The store is open from 9:00 to 18:00. The shop is located just off the ‘Museumsquartier’, a must for all visitors of Vienna. Two huge museums of fin-de-siècle and modern arts, with the biggest collection of Klimt and Schiele all over the world. (Thanks R Pohoryles)

The previous review notes: Owner Leo Grahofer runs a great pen store that specializes in old vintage pens, mostly European, but American pens as well. The selection is broad, including those that he has restored himself to a nearly mint state. He also has a large stock of spare parts. The reason why one should see his shop that he has a large offer of forgotten European pens, with a local accent. You find there wonderful pens from the Golden Age in Austria, some of them with a quite interesting art nouveau design, all of them with excellent nibs. Among the nearly forgotten brands you find Tempo, Napoleon, and Europen. He is also proud about his large offer of pens with a glass nib. But he indeed has a large offer of American vintage pens as well.

His collection has included such rate pens as a Waterman eye dropper pen form the 1910s. Leo focuses on vintage pens, he repairs old pens as well, however, he does not touch pens produced later than 1960.

(Thanks R Pohoryles).

 

Weidler

Graben 26
1010 Wien/Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43 (1) 533.50.10

Web Site: www.weidler.com

This store was founded in 1882 and is located near the central St. Stephen’s Cathedral. They have shops in nearly all former countries of the Habsburg Empire.

They are open Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 6:30 pm and on Satudays 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

The store comes highly recommended. I look forward to an opportunity to visit it when I have the chance to visit Vienna.