Leroy Fairchild number five dip pen. Owned by Sallie Maxwell Bennett, mother of a WWI flying ace

In 1922, four years after her American son was killed in action in World War I, Sallie Maxwell Bennett received a letter from Emil Merkelbach, a German officer who had fought against her son in the battle that ended his life. Please see Associated video and the link below for more history about this pen http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/WWI-letter

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