The items below are recent additions to our catalog; they are listed alphabetically by maker.
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Featured Listings Good Parker 51s are becoming ever more difficult to find. This assortment is small but select; we will be adding more 51s to our regular list very shortly.
10168: Parker 51 Club button: large metal pin back, 3.55 cm in diameter, given to Parker dealers as part of a sales contest promoting the initial release of the Parker 51; rare, and probably even less commonly seen than the sought-after contest award pens. DATE: 1941 • CONDITION: fine-exc • $300
10172: Parker 51: a rare very early 1942 black double-jewel with first-year-style aluminum Speedline filler, single-line imprint, but located next to the two-tone clutch ring rather than at the end of the blind cap. This pen is all the more unusual in having the scarce and desirable grid-pattern Heritage cap, 1/10 16K gold filled, with solid 14K Blue Diamond clip and tassie. DATE: 1942 • CONDITION: fine-exc • NIB: extra-fine • SOLD
10171: Parker 51 in box: Nassau Green double-jewel with crisp sterling silver cap, gold filled Blue Diamond clip, two-tone clutch ring, bold imprint with 3rd quarter date code; outstanding condition, like new but for a bit of plating wear on the highest points of the blind cap ring, probably from polishing. Uncommon early box, lid reverses to display pen. DATE: 1948 • CONDITION: near mint • NIB: extra-fine • SOLD
10189: Parker 51 nib extractor: original factory-issued repairman's tool, ring 2.5 cm across, curved steel blade with stud on top is inserted between nib and feed, stud snaps into hole in nib, allowing nib to be pulled out without removal of shell (hood). Slightly shortened at tip (the thin steel easily chipped), still functional but use not recommended nowadays due to risk of damaging shell. DATE: c. 1945 •
CONDITION: VG* • $125
10110: Parker 51 demonstrator: transparent Lucite Vac-filler, clean Lustraloy cap, chrome plated trim, sharp barrel imprint with 3rd quarter date code; clean example, noting one stress mark on the shell, and smaller stress lines around barrel monogram (see details). These pens were not sold to the public, made for a brief period in 1947-48 for dealers, salesmen, and repairmen only. DATE: 1947 • CONDITION:
fine-exc • NIB: medium fine • $565
10170: Parker 51 Presidential: Aerometric filler with solid 14K gold cap, barrel, and early long arrow clip; made in USA, sac has perfect transparency, no dings, initials neatly engraved on back of cap. While English-made examples are not uncommon, American-made 51 Presidentials are extremely scarce. This is the first specimen we have offered in over ten years. DATE: c. 1951 • CONDITION: exc-near mint • NIB: medium fine • SOLD
10194: Parker 51: rare cartridge-filler, black with Lustraloy cap, chrome plated trim, uses standard Parker refills or convertor; very smooth 14K gold nib. One of the scarcest production-model Parker 51s. DATE: c. 1960 • CONDITION: fine-exc • NIB: extra-fine • SOLD
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10231: Cross stylographic pen: long black hard rubber eyedropper-filler, 16.5 cm long, gold filled trim, appears to be an unusual unchased model, with good legible imprints with 1878 and 1880 patent dates. Even fading and wear, nonfunctional as is, since needle appears to be frozen and is detached from its internal carrier. Hard rubber cap appears to be an old replacement, slightly larger in diameter than the original, and with what seems to be a burn hole in the end.
DATE: c. 1881 • CONDITION: G* •
NIB: fine • $200 
10224: Cross Alwrite pencil: blue ringtop, 10.5 cm long, gold filled trim, uses 1.1 mm lead; fully and crisply marked on the crown, some pinhead dings but overall clean. Comes with old suspension chain.
DATE: c. 1928 • CONDITION: fine • $95
10204: Cross (?) torpedo pencil: chrome plated brass, 12.2 cm long, brass propellors, uses 1.1 mm lead; no maker's marks, which is typical of Cross's novelty pencils. An earlier Cross torpedo pencil of slightly different form is shown on p. 103 of Lambert's Writing History; it may be significant that Cross made torpedo propellors during WW2. Patches of pitting to plating, nozzle at tip a bit beat up.
DATE: c. 1945 • CONDITION: G-VG • $65
10187: Eagle cyclist's cup: aluminum advertising item, 5.3 cm in diameter, 2.2 cm high closed, 5.7 cm extended; dates to the cycling craze of the end of the 19th century.
DATE: c. 1895 • CONDITION:
fine • $125
10235: Esterbrook ballpoint refills: new old stock in original packaging, not guaranteed to work, sold as display item only. Marked "REORDER NO. C-021".
DATE: c. 1960 • CONDITION: near mint • $8
10217: Eversharp pencil: early production, gold filled, 13.5 cm long, with "EVER SHARP" imprint, "GOLD FILLED" and "PATENTED"; no mention of Wahl, but made immediately after Wahl's takeover of Eversharp; uses 1.1 mm lead, one patch of brassing and a slight flat spot towards the front of the barrel, light bump to the crown, name lightly and elegantly engraved on barrel of John F. Oertel, most likely to be identified with the proprietor of the Oertel Brewing Company of Louisville, Kentucky.
DATE: c. 1917
• CONDITION: VG • $150
10179: Eversharp pencil in box: silver plated, 13.3 cm long, "Check" pattern, very little used but usual age spotting to plating, minor polishing wear; uses 1.1 mm lead, in box with instructions.
DATE: c.
1924 • CONDITION: exc-near mint • $75
10225: Eversharp Doric pencil: "Cathay" light green pearl, 10.9 cm long, white gold filled trim, unstabilized age cracks at top of cap; uses 1.1 mm lead.
DATE: c. 1935 • CONDITION: VG* • SOLD
10238: Faber dip pen: nickel-plated brass ferrule, marked "E. FABER" with 1877 patent date, taper of simulated ivory (celluloid over a wooden core) with scrimshaw-type decoration, highly detailed; 17.9 cm long not including steel dip nib, taper marked "FRANCE"; plating wear to ferrule.
DATE: c. 1895 •
CONDITION: VG-fine • $165
10205: Mabie Todd Swan set in box: beautiful and solid New York-made lever-filler in 1/5 18K gold filled, 13.1 cm long, crisp rings chasing pattern (usually found on Edward Todd pens, but very uncommon for Mabie Todd). Matching 1.1 mm Fyne Poynt pencil, both pieces bear a neatly engraved 1928-dated inscription on their indicias. Nib is set tight, so writes a very fine line, but the tip is large enough that it could be adjusted to a medium fine if opened up. Set is like new with attractive age toning, no brassing but usual Mabie Todd seam lines visible where end caps soldered on pen.
DATE: c. 1928 • CONDITION: near
mint • NIB: extra-fine semiflex • $685
10111: Parker button-filler: unusual long, slender, Duofold-style pen in jade green with gold filled trim, 12.6 cm long -- full-length, but Juniorette thickness. Typical barrel darkening, but only moderate wear; long-tined nib provides a nicely shaded line.
DATE: c. 1935 • CONDITION: fine • NIB: fine
flex • $245
10108: Parker Duofold Junior: streamlined button-filler in Burgundy (red pearl and black), 12 cm long, gold filled trim; name on barrel, posting mark and gouge (see details), short barrel threads hairline has been sealed. Still an attractive classic pen, and a good user.
DATE: c. 1935 • CONDITION: G-VG*
• NIB: extra-fine • $125
10233: Stylographic Pen Co. stylographic pen: black chased hard rubber eyedropper-filler, 12.65 cm long, even fading and wear, 1881 patent date clearly legible, spring action gold needle is intact, as is the tip, spring is present but bent, does not wedge into recess in central rod as intended, not guaranteed functional as is.
DATE: c. 1882 • CONDITION: VG* • NIB: fine • $150
10242: Waterman 12P: rare mottled hard rubber pump-filler, 13.8 cm long, good color, imprints worn but mostly legible, including patent dates and arrow on filler knob. Filler knob end has been shortened by about 5 mm, possibly due to breakage of the original end notch. #2 nib has surface roughness, but is a wonderful, soft writer; pen is mechanically sound and filler works perfectly. Waterman pump-fillers are hard to find, but are truly rare in mottled.
DATE: c. 1910 • CONDITION: G* • NIB: fine flex •
$650
10218: Waterman Hundred Year: rare white doctor's pen, 13 cm long, gold filled trim with three barrel bands, globe logo on clip boss; one 1mm stress crack at the corner of the clip cutout (stable, caused by someone forcing the clip sideways), otherwise no damage or defects, noting initials engraved on the central barrel band. Nib has just enough flex to give a bit of shading with moderate pressure..
DATE: c. 1941
• CONDITION: fine-exc* • NIB: fine semiflex • $800
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