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Pens for sale in relative scale. "Sold" pens shown with small images.

Pen 2521 Conklin 1920's Gold-Filled pen $245 All Gold-Filled Pen. Clusters of vertical and squiggly lines. Flexy nib.


Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: Clip Brassing	Color: Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: MInt	clarity: Modest amber
Point: F-M Flex Nib	Imprint: Exc	Size: 4 7/8" 12.5 cm	PRICE: $245
COMMENTS: No dings. No gripping section corrosion. Nib baseline is fine-medium with flex up to Broad+. Cartouche is neatly engraved "LFC"

Pen 2465R Conklin Endura Flat-top $165 SOLD Likely late production piece. Monster Nib Alert

Overall Grade: Fine	Metal: Fine	Color: Perfect	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: Exc	clarity: NA
Point: F-M-- 2xB High Flex	Imprint: ExtraFine	Size: 5 1/8" 12.9 cm	PRICE: $165
COMMENTS: Late production flat-top Endura, flat top with crescent symbol. Killer flex nib. The negatives? Barrel is neatly personalized Curtis De Rodes, Top capband has a ding and bottom cap-band has brassing.

Pen 2376R Conklin Endura Oversized"Lime" Green $595

Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Exc	Color: Extrafine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads perfect	clarity: NA
Point: Medium-stubbish	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 3/8" 13.5cm	PRICE: $595
COMMENTS: Conklin was one of the "Big 5" of American pendom during the "golden age". High quality pens- well able to go head to head against Parker, etc- are well appreciated by today's collectors. This one is the big boy. Plastic is very clean. No Brassing. Sharp imprint. A lovely big conklin. Color about 90%, just bit of lightening relative to the protected barrel under the cap- actually is much richer color than the wan photo suggests, no joke. Nib is medium with stubbish cut. Nice wet writer that gives thin cross strokes and fatter down strokes.

Pen 2377R Conklin Endura Oversized Jet Black $495 A big honkin' Conklin

Overall Grade: Exc+	Metal: Extra Fine	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: perfect	clarity: NA
Point: Smooth XF-F	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 1/4" 13.2cm	PRICE: $495
COMMENTS: Conklin was one of the "Big 5" of American pendom during the "golden age". High quality pens- well able to go head to head against Parker, etc- are well appreciated by today's collectors. This one is the big boy Sharp imprint. Plastic is very clean.No Brassing. Sharp imprint. A lovely big conklin. Dunno if the following is pro or con but here it is... The nib is not "Endura". It is a Conklin nib (Conklin Toledo with diamond symbol beneath), which is well larger than the Endura Senior nib. Dunno if it is a #7 from the old "Crescent" days or what, but it is as i found it.

Pen 2378R Conkliin Endura Standard. Red. $225

Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Exc	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads perfect	clarity: NA
Point: F-M	Imprint: Exc	Size: 4 7/8" 12.4cm	PRICE: $225
COMMENTS: Conklin was one of the "Big 5" of American pendom during the "golden age". High quality pens- well able to go head to head against Parker, etc- are well appreciated by today's collectors. This one is the big boy Color is superb. Plastic is very clean. A smidge of brass at front and back end of clip (common spots) as per picture, and spec at proximal edge of lever. Sharp imprint. A lovely big conklin.

Pen 2395R Conklin Flat-Top Cream/Black $205 SOLD A sub-Endura model in non-Endura color. Late 1920's-early 1930's Ultra Flex nib.

Overall Grade: Exc	Metal: Exc	Color: Extra Fine	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Exc	Threads: perfect	clarity: none
Point: Fine -2X-Broad	Imprint: Exc	Size: 4 7/8" 12.4cm	PRICE: $205
COMMENTS: Relative tp some of the pastel Conklins, not to mention Halloween and Zebra, this sub-Endura offers color not available in the high line pens, but offers similar quality. Color is not at all bad as these go, but is not perfect. The nib makes the pen. Smooth and highly flexible, ranging from fine to double broad depending on the pressure one applies.

Pen 2396R Conklin Endura Senior (oversized) $500 Bronze/Black Celluloid. late 1920's

Overall Grade: ExtraFine	Metal: No Brassing	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: exc	Threads: perfect	clarity: NA
Point: Fine	Imprint: Exc	Size: 5 3/8" 13.5cm	PRICE: $500
COMMENTS: Conklin was one of the "Big 5" of American pendom during the "golden age". High quality pens- well able to go head to head against Parker, etc- are well appreciated by today's collectors. This one is the big boy. Plastic is very clean. No Brassing. Sharp imprint. One pin mark to cap-band

Pen 2253R Conklin Sub-Endura $600 Scarce plastic. Only one i've seen. ~ 1930

Overall Grade: Extra Fine	Metal: ExtraFine	Color: Exc	CLICK FOR LARGER PIC
Nib condition: Nearmint	Threads: Exc	clarity: NA
Point: Fine Semi-Flex	Imprint: Exc	Size: 4 15/16" 12.6cm	PRICE: $600
COMMENTS: Neat Conklin. Suspect this one is in the same range as the Halloween and Zebra. Targetted below the Endura range, more wild plastics appear, much to our happiness today. This plastic shares a bit with Wahl's Green/Gold and with a similar color on Waterman 92, but has a much larger amount of metallic-tone plastic than either of those two pens. Recognizing i've not seen every Conklin out there, i note this is the only Conklin i've ever seen in this plastic. Couple specks of brassing on clip edge and at bottom edge of cap-band.