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September 2011 Website Update:
My apologies for the long period since the last Update. I have been busy, but am catching up on life and pens now. I have 1000+ decent vintage pens back from, at, or heading to the restorers. The next couple years should see plenty of nice pens offered. This update is not huge by numbers, but offers some significant pens from my favorite decade, the 1930's. Collectors of Sheaffer's Balance and of Parker's Vacumatic can see some variants of significant cachet. The Update is peppered with interesting nibs, as well. For fun, this time I did all pens as "art" shots, rather than my usual flat catalogue style images. Thus, none of the pens in this offering are shot to scale. Sizes are provided though in the descriptions. Enjoy! For individual pen photos, pens are shown to scale (on the flat "catalogue" shots) with sold pens shown with smaller pics. Angled "art" shots are not to scale, generally larger than other images. Tray images show pens in scale to each other, but not to other images. CONTACT ME will open a link to my email in your own email program, or you can email me by cloning isaacson@frontiernet.net into your browser based email page. I do not maintain an e-cart, as each pen below is a unique offering, and it is best we discuss to confirm availability etc, before proceeding to the sale. Shipping in USA ranges $8-11 or so. NYS residents 8.25% sales tax. International Shipping runs about $29 for USPS Tracked Express (necessary when dealing through Paypal) Enjoy the pens. -David 29 August 2011 |
| Sheaffer Balance: The
second most prevalent pen in my own collection, I try to get nice
examples whenever possible for this website. Balance ran 1929-1945
offering hundreds of variants. This update offers several that are...
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Pen 3452: Sheaffer Balance Oversized. Carmine. Late 1930's $740 SOLD
Off-Catalogue Up-Cachet "Jeweler's" Style Cap-Band. Superb. |
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| Overall Grade: Exc+ |
Metal: NM | Color: Superb | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: F-M | Imprint: Superb | Size: 5 5/8" 14.2 cm |
PRICE: $740 |
| COMMENTS: All Sheaffer catalogues show Balance with smooth single cap-band. A variety of off-catalogue and variably uncommon cap-bands are known. Speculation is that these were made for limited markets, even specific stores. This one, commonly references as the "Jeweler's Band" features a wide milled single cap-band. Such cap-bands add significant "oomph" to otherwise similar catalogued variants. This one pretty well has it all. Carmine celluloid in superb condition. Hefty oversized pen. Excellent writer. It is noted for completeness that the feed is the earlier style flat ladder style. Great writer. Serious collector's pen. | |||
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Pen 3454 R: Sheaffer Balance Oversized 1936-7 $645 SOLD
Roseglow Celluloid. Plunger-fill |
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| Overall Grade: VG-F |
Metal: Fine | Color: As below | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: F-M | Imprint: Superb | Size: 5 1/2" 14 cm |
PRICE: $645 |
| COMMENTS: The "ultimate" catalogued plastic Sheaffer, based on current collector convention. Relatively scarce color with short product run. Differs from the other striated colors as instead of having a black substrate, the dominant fuchsia rests on silver pearl. Fully restored the right way by El Zorno, the plunger-fill system should outlast by far any recently restored conventional sac pen. No "fatal flaws" but fair degree of use has rendered this lower grade than the typical $1200 excellent example. As with most of the vac-fill Roseglow pens, the barrel is quite ambered, dark with occasional native stripes showing through. Cap color is great. Some brassing on trim and clip ball can be seen as is a slight bump in distal clip as seen in the three-view photo above. | |||
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Pen 3451 R: Sheaffer Balance Standard set. Ebonized Pearl $255
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| Overall Grade: Exc |
Metal: Exc | Color: Extra Fine. | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: XF-F | Imprint: Nearmint | Size: 5 3/8" 13.7 cm |
PRICE: $255 |
| COMMENTS: Clean set. Clean trim to pen. Speck of brassing to PENCIL's clip at top. Pencil with superb color, barrel with slight tint to the green side, better in fact tha pic suggests. Razor sharp manufacturer's imprint. Not certain this is a matching set (should the pencil have a ring for this model?), but the pencil is tossed in gratis, so no harm there. | |||
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Pen 3467 NB: Sheaffer Balance Statesman (Standard) Set $260
Nearmint/Mint in Box. |
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint |
Metal: Superb | Color: Superb | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: Superb (grip) | |
| Point: Fine | Imprint: Perfect | Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $260 |
| COMMENTS: High Line (White Dot/Lifetime) set in 2nd largest size in frankly stunning shape. Pen has remnant of circular sticker consistent with Sheaffer price sticker from that era. This one lets one see why these sold so well. Crisp all around. One of the cleanest full size Balances I've handled. Full one year function warranty applies, but may not be returned if inked or dipped. | |||
| Parker Vacumatic : My favorite old pen. I try to get nice
examples whenever possible for this website. The Vacumatic Family ran 1932-1948 in the USA,
offering hundreds of variants. All in this update are up-cachet items, as you will see... |
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Pen 3460: Parker Vacuum Filler Stubby Ring-Top ~1933 $700 SOLD
Rare High-Cachet Variant. |
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| Overall Grade: Fine |
Metal: ExtraFine | Color: Fine | |
| Nib condition: Excellent+ |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Fine | Imprint: Light | Size: 4 3/8" 11cm |
PRICE: $700 |
| COMMENTS:
If you already know this pen, then do skip the history lesson. Sound
example of this very challenging model. Barrel ambering is apparent,
though not sever. Nib has correct early style feather-together arrow and is in
superb shape. Imprint light but legible. Neat skewed laminations on the
cap, an appealing feature sometimes found on early pens. History Lesson: Isn't this just "a little Vac"? Nope. This pre-Vacumatic Parker Vacuum-Filler has full girth and is extra short. Thus, it is fatter and shorter than typical ladies' models such as the Slender or the Debutante. Collectors call it the Stubby. It is known with Golden Arrow and Vacuum Filler imprints. Vacumatic-imprinted pens do turn up, usually with early features, sometimes with obviously early plastic (always opaque with one-piece barrel-section assembly) but with later "parts blow out" date code. The Stubby can be found with clip or with ring top (indeed, the parts can be exchanged, if one had spares). While for most old pens, ring-tops have less cachet than clip pens, this is reversed for Parker Vacumatic, as ring tops in general were phasing out in the early 1930's, and because ring-top Vacs are frankly rare. The ring-top appears in minimal Parker literature. This pen packs it all, with proper features and-- if not superb shape-- and very nice condition for this sort. This probably is not an ideal toss-about pen, but is meant for someone seeking recognized high-cachet variants for his collection. It has be a long time since I've offered a ring-top Stubby for sale. |
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Pen 3453: Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima $600 SOLD
Azure Blue Celluloid 1940-41 |
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| Overall Grade: Fine |
Metal: Fine | Color: Exc | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Exc | clarity: Modest | |
| Point: Med+ | Imprint: Fine | Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $600 |
| COMMENTS: The most difficult Maxima color, manufactured double jewel just 18 months vs 5 years for other colors. With full Excellent pens now running $900-$1000, this is offered as a quite decent, but not superb example. NO "fatal flaws". Some brassing to bottom edge of cap-band, visible in photo, nice color, partially present imprint. Great plump medium+ point. | |||
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Pen 3455: Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima Pen with Major Pencil $675
Cap-bands on this slightly mismatched "set" have matching personalizations. Relatively Scarce Injector Pencil |
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| Overall Grade: Exc+ |
Metal: Nearmint | Color: Superb | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: Superb | |
| Point: ---F-M | Imprint: Superb | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $675 |
| COMMENTS: You know my screed on Silver Pearl pens from the 1930's.
Today they are more common and often less expensive than other colors.
Generally they see less demand today because the pale color shows
celluloid discoloration more than other colors and because unlike
gold-filled trim the chrome trim cannot readily be polished once worn
or pitted. My assertion is they are common because back in the day,
when clean, they were stunningly lovely pens. When you see one clean, it all makes sense. When gems
turn up, then tend to command a premium. This one is the exception to the rule. Superb color, chrome trim and transparency. Bright bold clarity, with slight yellow tint. It is amongst the best dozen silver-pearl Maxima sets I've seen... and I've seen many. The set formally is a mismatch, as the pencil is Vacumatic Major. Injector pencils such as this are uncommon, produced probaby just a couple months in early 1939. But, both cap-bands have matching elegant engraving "W.A.B" suggesting an original pairing at time of sale. Superb set for the condition-oriented collector. |
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Pen 3456: Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima $640 SOLD
Emerald Pearl Celluloid. 1940 |
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| Overall Grade: Excellent+ |
Metal: NM | Color: Exc | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: Exc. Light amber | |
| Point: Fine. 2-Tone | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $640 |
| COMMENTS: The big-boy from the 2nd Generation of Vacdom. Double Jewel. Wide Cap-band. Correct-for-year striped top jewel, two-tone nib, black gripping section and target pattern bottom pseudo-jewel. A superb Senior Max. | |||
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Pen 3457: Parker Vacumatic Senior Maxima $725 SOLD
Burgundy Pearl Celluloid. USA-Manufacture for South America with "Marca Registrada" Marking. Oh yeah... Uncommon USA-issue FLEX Nib. |
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| Overall Grade: Exc |
Metal: Extra-Fine | Color: Exc | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Exc | clarity: Mild | |
| Point: F-M FLEX to B+ | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 3/8" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $725 |
| COMMENTS: The big-boy from the 2nd Generation of Vacdom. Double Jewel. Wide Cap-band. Correct-for-year striped top jewel, two-tone nib, black gripping section. True double jewel pen with striped bottom jewel, a "late" finding for this, as most 1940 pens have the target pattern pseudo-jewel. Clean pen with good color, sharp imprint. Trace brass to very bottom edge of cap-band (loupe needed to see) and trace to tassie. Modest clarity to barrel. Unusual feature: "Marca Registrada" imprint, believed to indicate intent for export to South America. I have a complete "Marca Registrada" Maxima set in my own collection, save possibly for Silver Pearl. Great nib- high flex, something scarce to USA-made Vacs. | |||
| Waterman : First
of the "Big Five" pen makers, Waterman has given us a huge range of
pens. A frankly scarce 1930's Ink-Vue true Demonstrator, and some
killer nibs and celluloids mark this offering. |
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Pen 3439: Waterman 0554 Gold-Filled (~1920) $650 SOLD
Gothic Pattern. BROAD Stub-Oblique FLEX "Monster" English Waterman NIb. |
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| Overall Grade: Excellent |
Metal: Exc | Color: VG | |
| Nib condition: Excellent |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Broad Stub/Oblique Flex | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $650 |
 COMMENTS:
About the most clean 0554 I've handled. Per Waterman's numbering
system, "54" is a lever-filler with "4" nib. The "05" indicates
gold-filled overlay, in this case the Gothic pattern. 0552 and 0554
pens turn up readily at pen shows, I see probably a couple dozen per
year amongst all patterns. Most are worn, dinged, engraved (worse, with
scraped-away engravings) and so forth. This one pops. Sharp "0554" on
butt of pen and solid distal Waterman imrint wrapping near buttom of
barrel. No engraving. No dings, not even the thin rim where overlay
meets dome at top of pen. No brassing. Killer NIb. Essentially
broad/stub/flex it has a hint of oblique cut (right-hand-writer's
oblique), with English Waterman markings.Note the symbol/coat-of-arms above the clip. Discussion I raised online --Link To Fountain Pen Board Discussion- suggests the symbol is for New York Life Insurance Co, the image at left being of the clock tower at the the company's building, The Clock Tower Building, 346 Broadway, NYC, built in 1894 |
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Pen 3465: Waterman Lady Patricia. Early 1930's $265
Moss Agate Celluloid. |
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| Overall Grade: Exc. |
Metal: Nearmint | Color: Excellent | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Fine Flex. | Imprint: Exc | Size: 4 3/8" 11 cm |
PRICE: $265 |
| COMMENTS: Part of the 1930 Patricia-7-94-Lady Patricia-92 range, Lady Patricia ran $5 in 1930. Moss Agate is a desirable color, less subject to discoloration than some Waterman colors from this era. Some though have fading of the metallic bronze panels. This pen... does not have that. For this pen: great color, trim and imprint. Very clean. Nice flex fine point. Note: the top metal plate (not visible when pen seen from side) has initials elegantly (and discreetly) engraved, either "L.L" or "S.S" or some such, in nice script. | |||
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Pen 3459 NB: Waterman 92 ~1933 $290
Canadian. Red-Bronze Celluloid. Flex Nib |
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| Overall Grade: Exc |
Metal: Exc | Color: Exc | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads : Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: F-M with flex. | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $290 |
| COMMENTS: Relatively uncommon color for this early 1930's Waterman model. Great color preservation (often the metallic bronze panels are faded). Pen quite clean. Pencil with trace brassing to edge of ferrule, as seen in image. Nice writer wtih moderate flex | |||
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Pen 3445: Waterman Ink-Vue (mid 1930s) $775
Celluloid True Dealer Demonstrator. HIgh Flex "Red" Nib. |
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| Overall Grade: Fair-Good cap. Exc Barrel. |
Metal: Good | Color: Excellent | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: Excellent | |
| Point: high flex med | Imprint: Excellent | Size: 5 1/18" 13 cm |
PRICE: $775 |
| COMMENTS:
Waterman's Ink-Vue (whose mechanism eventually spread to other
Waterman lines) was released in Copper Ray, Emerald Ray, and Silver Ray
colors, the series aimed it seems at Parker's Vacumatic. Deluxe
variants with triple cap-band also were made. Released perhaps one per
thousand typical pens were true dealer Demonstrators, done wholly in
clear celluloid
(all found now have at least a yellow tint, and I cannot say if they
had the yellow cast at time of issue). These were not clear pens
released to public as today are so many pens opportunistically labelled
"demonstrator". This was the real deal, meant for dealers alone to
illustrate the filling mechanism before selling typical pens to
customers. I've seen fewer than ten during the last thirteen
years looking, and some of those had replacement black cap. This one is intact though has some points of roughness. The barrel all around is in great shape. The nib is a killer full flex Wateman "RED" keyhole style nib, more flexible than some Pink nibs I've seen. I likely should yank the nib and place a common point, but I'd prefer not to tamper with this fragile pen. Sac has been removed to preserve barrel color. The barrel is personalized, as per the picture. The cap trim is rough (would polish to look better, but I wanted you to see it at its worst). Of note, there are significant internal stress cracks to the inner cap (the inner layer of celluloid at top half of cap) that do not externalize and which have been stable for the decade I've owned the pen. Further photos will be offered of that shortly. The pen is intact, it is rare and dwarfs ths scarcity of some currently popular Demonstrators such as are found in the Parker "51" and Sheaffer Snorkel series. Why to sell? Well, after ten years I found a second, still with nib grade sticker. Otherwise this would stay with me. |
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Pen 3458 NB: Waterman 1940's $175 SOLD
Pearlescent Red with Chrome Trim. Monster FLEX NIB. |
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| Overall Grade: Excellent |
Metal: Exc | Color: Exc | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Exc | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Med-Broad then with High Flex | Imprint: Exc | Size: 4 3/8" 11cm |
PRICE: $175 |
| COMMENTS: Great Canadian Waterman from 1940's. I don't know the model number... there was a fair range of sizes, trim, colors for this sort of pen from this era and country (does not follow USA "rule"). Gorgeous pen with great preservation of notoriously "difficult" chrome trim. Killer nib, medium-broad with high flex on top of that. A Monster nib. | |||
| Sheaffer "Early" : Let
us swing back to the 1920's, when everyone's pens had flat ends.
Sheaffer made very high quality pens during this time and was the
first of the "Big Five" to employ Celluloid. Elegant metal pens also
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Pen 3443: Sheaffer Flat-Top "Porthole" Demonstrator $275
Jade Celluloid. mid-ate 1920's |
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| Overall Grade: ExtraFine |
Metal: Extra Fine | Color: Very Good | |
| Nib condition: NA |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: NA | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 1/4" 13.2 cm |
PRICE: $275 |
| COMMENTS: A charming item for collectors of 1920's-1930's flat-top Sheaffers. A port-hole / cut-out Demonstrator. Show even color shift not uncommon to early Jade pens. Scratch (not crack) by cap-lip. | |||
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Pen 3469: Sheaffer 1920's Gold Filled Pen $270
Striped Pattern. Full Size Metal Pen with #3 Nib. |
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| Overall Grade: Extra Fine |
Metal: ExtraFine | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Fine Flex | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 " 12.9 cm |
PRICE: $270 |
| COMMENTS: I'm fond of Sheaffer's flat-top metal pens. Do see a discussion of them, with some killer pictures, over at Fountain Pen Board. FPB Metal Sheaffer Discussion This one is a full size model, 5" long with #3 Sheaffer Self Filler nib that has nice flexibility. Flex nibs generally are not associated with Sheaffer, but they do crop up more frequently amongst the early, "Self Filler" nibs. In my view pens of this sort are well less common than Waterman and Wahl metal, but I keep open mind on that point. Most are found in rough shape. This one is not rough. Note trace edge brassing (from posting) at very butt of pen as is shown in photo. Indicia is smooth and free from personalization. Edges are crisp. Couple pin dings (literally that size) on back of cap. Far, far better than average for these. |
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Pen 3461: Sheaffer Gold-Filled Metal Pen. 1920's $135
Ring Top Chevron Pattern. Flex Nib. |
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| Overall Grade: Extra Fine |
Metal: Extra Fine | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Fine. Flex | Imprint: Exc | Size: 3 3/4" 9.5 cm |
PRICE: $135 |
| COMMENTS:
I'm fond of Sheaffer's flat-top metal pens. Do see a discussion of
them, with some killer pictures, over at Fountain Pen Board. FPB Metal Sheaffer Discussion This is a short squat model with chevron pattern. Clean pen with light brassing at very butt of pen from posting. Pen posts well. Nice flexible Sheaffer Self-Filler nib. A wee gem from the 1920's. |
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| Sheaffer "Late" : For
your consideration, a couple "better" Sheaffer Snorkels from the
1950's, along with my favorite Sheaffer Targa pattern, and more... |
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Pen 3463: Sheaffer Snorkel Pencil $115
FERN Green. 1956-9 |
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint/Mint |
Metal: Nearmint | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: NA |
Clutch: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: NA | Imprint: Nearmint | Size: 5" 13 cm |
PRICE: $115 |
| COMMENTS: Fern (with some caveats) is considered the rarest Snorkel color. I have not had pencil in stock in years. Doubt this one has seen use. Perfect eraser. Etc. | |||
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Pen 3466 M: Sheaffer Snorkel Admiral Sage Green $190
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint/Mint |
Metal: Perfect | Color: Perfect | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Med | Imprint: Perfect | Size: 5 5/8" 14 cm |
PRICE: $190 |
| COMMENTS: Sage is color "intermediate" cachet. Admiral has open monotone gold nib. Nice medium point. Superb condition | |||
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Pen 3441: Sheaffer Targa Ballpoint $175
Green Moire |
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint |
Metal: NM | Color: Nearmint | |
| Nib condition: NA |
Clutch: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: NA | Imprint: NA | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $175 |
| COMMENTS: The three Moire colors are amongst my favorite for TARGA. Requiring 14 coats of translucent lacquer on metal guilloche, these sparkle. I have one green FP in my personal collection of just two Targas (the other is a prototype color). Sold six Moire fountain pens during the last couple years. This is the only BP I've stocked, and I have two available now. | |||
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Pen 3442: Sheaffer Imperial Set (FP and BP) $185
Lined Gold-Plated Finish |
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| Overall Grade: Exc+ FP. Fine BP |
Metal: Exc | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Clutch: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Fine. | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 1/4" 13 cm |
~PRICE: $185 |
| COMMENTS: Clean pen. Includes converter, which currently retails ~ $15. Ballpoint has slight ding at top and has some light scratches at distal tip. Fountain Pen is clean. | |||
| Miscellanea : We'll wrap up the primary offerings from this Update with Wahl, Parker, Montblanc, and Platinum. Does anyone like those three-tine Music Nib thingies? But, don't go away after that, because after a couple years, witness the return of VACUMANIA'S BASEMENT. |
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Pen 3450: Wahl 1920's Gold-Filled Pen $255 SOLD
Striped Pattern. #4 nib |
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| Overall Grade: Exc |
Metal: Exc | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Exc |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Med | Imprint: NA | Size: 4 5/8" 12cm |
PRICE: $255 |
| COMMENTS: Grand example (and nice writer) of the somewhat underappreciated 1920's Wahl metal pens. | |||
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Pen 3462: Parker 65 Consort Pattern 1960's $255
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint |
Metal: NM | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Clutch: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Broad | Imprint: Exc | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $255 |
| COMMENTS: Parker 65 is a British pen that to my eye (1960's non-"51" Parkers not a prime focus for me), seems to blend the best of Parker VP and Parker 61. Featuring a non-removable aerometric filler, the pen looks externally much like a Parker 61, but has a nib evoking VP/75, with a charming hooded, tapered long gripping section. I rarely have these in stock, and am happy to hear more about this pen, if anyone reading this happens to be an ardant collector. This pattern seems relatively uncommon, at least amongst patterns I've seen at pen shows over the years. Very clean pen. No dings. Plump point. | |||
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Pen 3444: Montblanc Rollerball Large Model $230
Possibly A Legrand 162 |
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint |
Metal: NM | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: NA | Imprint: NA | Size: |
PRICE: $230 |
| COMMENTS: I don't do much with modern MB, but modern MB tends to turn up with collection purchases. This one I believe is the largest Rollerball offered. Might be as big or bigger than a 146 pen. Retail on the 162 is around $400 MIB. | |||
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Pen 3468: Platinum 3776 $265 SOLD
MUSIC NIB |
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint/Mint |
Metal: NM | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Perfect |
Threads: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: MUSIC | Imprint: NA | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $255 |
| COMMENTS: I still have my Koy Fish 3775 pen with music nib, and have had chance over the years to offer a couple 3776 pens with that nib. | |||
--VACUMANIA'S BASEMENT-- When I buy collections often I acquire pens for which I choose not to invest time and effort to restore and to offer individually. They range from low-tier brands and modesls, to pens of quality that simply are in rough shape to pens where the cost to restore simply does not make sense for website offerings. I offer groups of these unrestored pens in the BASEMENT. Often they are presented at or below "parts" value. I can use only so many parts, after all. These can become quite serviceable once restored. Some even work already. Most could use a good polishing, sometimes benefitting from heat to pop out toothmarks. They offer good practice for those who wish to play at pen restoration. I do cursory inspections and will let you know of cracks and such. But, none of these are restored. There is no function warranty provided. This is... the BASEMENT. |
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Pen 3446: Esterbrook Purse Pen Pair $100
From Vacumania's Basement |
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| Comment: Estie pastel Purse Pens are popular with collectors. The white pen is pretty clean, and is popular with collectors, though without red jewels I believe this does not qualify as a "Nurse's Pen". The dark yellow (less common than light yellow) has multiple hairline/stress cracks in cap lip. Unrestored. No function warranty. Basement pens. | |||
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Pen 3447: Five Sheaffers $160
Marine Marbled Balance Standard and 4 1950 Sheaffer Admirals. All with 14k Nibs. |
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| COMMENTS: Priced about at Nib Value. Some might fill. All have intact gold Sheaffer nibs. The Marine Green Balance would run >$200 alone in excellent restored condition. Has name in barrel and some wear. Some of the Admirals with toothmarks as shown. Practice your resacing, nib adjustment and so forth, with five vintage gold-niibbed Sheaffers. One black pen looks to have a sprung clip. Unrestored. No function warranty. Basement pens. |
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Pen 3448: 3 Sheaffer Fountain Pens $100
FROM VACUMANIA'S BASEMENT. |
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| COMMENTS: Slender Flat-top in black celluloid from 1920's, Marine Green Striated ladies pen, lever filler, clean trim, personalization of barrel as seen in picture. Black Sheaffer Sentinel Tuckaway, nice lean Triumph two-tone gold nib. All pens with gold nibs. No doubt has some dings. Practice your resacing, nib adjustment and so forth. Unrestored. No function warranty. Basement pens. |
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Pen 3449: Sheaffer Imperial and Compact $115
From Vacumania's Basement |
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| COMMENTS: The two black Imperials are cartridge/converter. The gray Compact- somewhat popular today probably for those clear barrel windows, is cartridge only, though I have vague recollection Ron Zorn might have tracked down some extra-short converters that can fit. All with triumph nib gold points. Converters not included with this bunch. 3 gold nibs. Unrestored. No function warranty. Basement pens. |
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Pen 3460: Parker Super-21 and More $80 SOLD
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| Overall Grade: Nearmint |
Metal: NM | Color: NA | |
| Nib condition: Nearmint |
Clutch: Perfect | clarity: NA | |
| Point: Med | Imprint: NA | Size: 5 3/18" 13.6 cm |
PRICE: $80 |
| COMMENTS: 1) Intact Fine condition Parker "Super 21" (i think that's it), the 21 with lined cap and gold tone clip. Aero filler. Function not tested, probably works. Couple pin dings to cap. Better than many worse than some 2) VENUS. Probably late 1960's when had Esterbrook affiliation. Takes estie nib units. Clean metal cap. Significant wear to barrel but should polish to decent state. 3) Esterbrook later item cartridge pen metal cap. Nice shape could use barrel polish. additionally... a pile of stuff. Many but not all have nibs. Couple missing butts. One OS orange Empire. WATERMAN Taperite Era (?Skywriter) with Star cap with couple dings but decent part donor. Horribly cracked barrel. Pretty pencil that looks like it could match an exotic CS Dinky, but who knows. A few salvageable pens. Some junk. Practice your resacing and nib tweaking. Again not all have nibs, but I think you will be more than happy, given that a cleaned up Super 21 worth a good chunk of entry price. Unrestored. No function warranty. Basement pens. |
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