OTHER BRANDS
Conklin Crescent Filler Straight Cap
This pen is one of the first Conklin Crescent Filler. It is a straight cap and it also exists in a taper cap version. It has a very nice chasing on the barrel and two wide gold filled band.
To feed the pen the hard rubber ring has to be turned, to allow the crescent to go down in the barrel. The pressure bar is fixed on the crescent and it crushes the sac to feed the pen.
Conklin Crescent Filler Gold Filled Filigree
This is a later conklin crescent filler. This one has a gold plated filigree with a "8" design. The ring under the crescent is in black hard rubber. Other conklin filigrees come with a gold plated ring.
Aikin Lambert - 1912
Gold filled overlay. Very nicely hand engraved. Eyedropper filler
Three nice taper cap
A very nice gold plated filigree This pen has a "lucky curve" feed made by Parker but it is not engraved "Parker", and it has a "Williamson" nib. This shows as difficult it can be sometime to identify clearly an early fountain pen.
Williamson, Parker or Heath ... this is a beautiful taper cap !
The mottled hard rubber one is a Century. Very nice twist design of the barrel. This pen has an under and over feed.
The last one is a Wirt, made of black hard rubber and pearl.
Weidlich Simplofiller
Interesting Weidlich with a diamond and snail gold plated overlay, similar to the Parker 30. This is a matchstick-filler : there is a hard rubber rod at the top of the cap which has to be used in the hole, on the barrel, to press the pressure bar and feed the pen.
US Fountain Pen Co
The filigree is 18k gold plated. Very nice quality. It reminds the Parker 16 filigree.
This is an eyedropper filler.
Eagle Glass Cardridge Filler
This is an interesting pen from the end of the 19th century. It comes with a glass cardridge (this one is broken at the back). Waterman used this solution later in the 20th century with no large success until the plastic cardridge.
LE BOEUF Black and Gold oversize - 1932
This Le Boeuf is one of the most beautiful plastic pen i have ever seen. The black and gold colors are stunning. It is a large pen, oversize, streamlined, and has a large Number 8 Leboeuf nib. The filling system is also interesting as it is a kind of sleeve filler. All the barrel go down along a metalic tube. The sac is inside the tube with a pressure bar. This metalic tube also gives a good weight in hand which is not the case of other all plastic pens.
Not anymore in the collection
Postal Pen - 1926
The Postal Pen was called like this as it was only sold by correspondence, which allow the company to save costs and sell the pen at a very competitive price. It is usually found in black color with a transparent barrel to see the ink level. This one is the "DELUXE" version. The cap and the nib are engraved "Deluxe". The material is a black and bronze plastic. Same material used by conklin for the Endura. It is also interesting to compare it with the Leboeuf which has a black and gold color. It is a long oversize pen. The filling system is also interesting. It is a bulb filler. The end of the barrel unscrew to show a sac. You just have to press directly the sac with your fingers several times to feed the pen.
Excelsior safety
This pen is a nice exemple of the work done by the Italian jewellers on fountain pens. You can find a lot of different pens with a gold plated overlay usually called "continental overlay". The most famous are maybe the overlays made on the Waterman 42 safety or on Montblanc pens. This one has a filigree overlay in yellow gold.
Sheaffer Balance Jade Green Set - 1930
This set is made in a beautiful jade green material. It is called "balance" as it is tapered on both the top of cap and the end of the barrel. This design came after the "flat top" of the 1920's. This material is very often discolored and become brown. This set has kept a beautiful color. The nib is big. The fountain pen very long and big.
Sheaffer PFM III - Snorkel filler - 1959
This "Pen For Men" is mainly interesting for its filling system, called "snorkel". When the button at the end of the barrel is unscrewed, a metalic tube appears under the nib. This allows to feed the pen without dirtying the nib (see picture below). This one has a rare broad nib. The nib is inserted in the section. To change it, the whole section has to be replaced.
Not anymore in the collection.
Sheaffer Nostalgia
The Nostalgia is a modern pen, cardridge filler. It reminds the sheaffers of the 1920's. It has a nice sterling silver filigree and a two tones nib. This model was made first in the 1970's but has been produced for a long time. It also exists in gold plated, solid gold ... and other versions of overlay
Montblanc N°6 button filler - 1925
This is a very nice Montblanc of the 1920's. I was looking for a N°6 lever filler as i had one a long time ago that i didn't kept for i paid it too much for the student i was. I have finaly found this one, a button filler. Note the bandless cap, the large star on the top of cap.
Not anymore in the collection
Montblanc 138
This Montblanc has been made for one year only. It is one size under the famous 139 which has inspired the Montblanc Hemingway Limited Edition in 1992. It is a Piston filler
Not anymore in the collection
Pelikan 100N green
Nice little pen. Piston filler. Exists in many different colors. The green is maybe the most easy to find.
Conway Stewart DURO - 1927
This pen is made of mottled hard rubber with gold filled clip, band and lever. This one is nicely chased on cap and barrel which seems to be very unusual. A good, solid, oversize pen.
Chilton Long Island Turquoise - 1932
The Chilton pen company produced fountain pen only from 1924 to 1941. The Chilton pens were however very good pens, beautilful and very well made. This pen is a Long Island (the company moved from Boston to Long Island in 1929) made of Turquoise celluloid. This is the same material used for the Waterman Patrician Turquoise. The system is a pump filler.
Not anymore in the collection
Swan N°8 lever filler - around 1925
This Mabie Todd Swan is a big pen, made of black hard rubber. It is a lever filler. The nib Number 8 is huge. It is extremely flexible and has been retiped by Greg Minuskin.
Swan Eternal 46 - 1927
This Swan is made of mottled hard rubber. It is a senior size, with a number 6 nib, but a bigger size, 48, with a nib number 8, did exist. See below.
Swan Eternal 48
This is the short version of the Swan Eternal 48.
Not anymore in the collection
Swan Eyedropper
Chased hard rubber fountain pen. It comes with a metallic pocket case.
Security Pen Giant
This pen is made of a nice mottled hard rubber with gold filled clip and bands. It was called Security pen because it has at the top of the cap a little tool to protect checks. Note the very short section.
J. G. Rider - 1910
This pen is one of my favorite. It is an oversize pen with a big nib. I really like the design of the barrel. Note that there is no section on this pen. This pen is an eyedropper filler. To feed the pen, the feed has to be removed from the section, using the clip of the cap. Note the specific design under the feed to place the clip. Then, the ink can be put directly in the barrel.
Onoto Magna - 1936
Excellent pen produced by the "De La Rue" company. This one is black chased but it also exists in different colors in a transparent material. Lever filler. The Magna is known as being a famous writer.
Wahl Eversharp Deco Band - Gold seal personal point
The Deco Band is a beautiful oversized pen. Lever filler. Very well made with a nice decorated band. The first one is a black celluloid, the second one is "Rosewood" hard rubber, the last one is blue lapis celluloid. These three pens show two different clips. The long one is engraved "Wahl Eversharp". The short one is engraved "Wahl Pen". They also show three different gold seal. The Rosewood has the usual W. The black has the W but with a hole driled which would mean that the life garanty was not available on this pen. The last one has an "X" ... which nobody knows precisely what it means ... prototype ? late production ? No life garanty ?
Wahl Eversharp Doric - Burma
The barrel and cap are faceted. The lever, clip and cap band are very art deco. The Doric was made in beautiful celluloid. This one is a black / grey Burma in the oversize version.
The nib is big and flexible. The nib exists with a system which allow to adjust the writing size, which give more interest to the pen.
Wahl Eversharp Doric - Cathay
John Holland
John Holland is a famous american brand. They made some beautiful pens including plastic pens and overlays. This one is an oversize eyedropper in black hard rubber. The clip is certainly a later addition as it is not signed John Holland. The pen didn't have a clip originally. The nib is a big 17, fine, flexible.
Thanks to my friend Stephan M (hello Stephan !) i have discovered that the feed of this pen is very interesting. It is an "elastic feed" with a transversal cut underneath which gives more flexibility. See the picture and an extract of the John Holland patent.
