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April 25th, 2015, 07:51 PM
$40 shipped USPS Priority to CONUS.
This is a small green striped celluloid no name purse pen.
This pen has issues. It had quite a few issues actually, but I managed to make this one a user again. I picked it up at an antique store. It was in rough shape. It had a cheap steel nib that was beyond saving. It had been a chew toy. It was caked in ink. The sac was ossified. It has plating loss on the rings. The rings are loose and spin around like a dance party. It used to be a ring top but the ring top is missing.
And oh yeah, this is the stinkiest celluloid pen I have ever handled. Normally celluloid has a faint odor that identifies it. This is ridiculous. It is a stinker for sure. Be warned.
I cleaned the pen thoroughly, I replaced the rubber sac with a silicon sac so that the celluloid does not degrade. I replaced the old steel nib with a Fountain Pen Revolution #5 flex nib. I wet sanded the living crap out of the entire pen, paying close attention to the bits that were used as chew toys. I inked the pen up and wrote two pages with it. It seems to write ok but I set the pen down to fiddle with something else and when I picked it back up it didn't want to start until I slid my finger down the nib slit. It might not be transferring air very good without a breather hole. It beats me but it wrote good for two pages and them some more after a little fiddling so I'd call it useable as far as vintage pens go.
The lever/sac system kinda sucks on a pen this tiny. I operated the lever and it drew up ink but only about a 25% fill due to the small stature of the filling system. To get a nice fill you have to tap the pen a few times in your hand to make the ink move down to the tail then actuate the lever again while upright, flip it over and fill it again. I got about a 80% fill that way.
I have the section friction fit into the barrel. It can be pulled out but seems snug enough to use. I DO NOT LIKE SHELLACING the sections to the body unless it is crazy loose. Celluloid gets too soft too fast for servicing easily. I try not to screw the next guy by shellacing celluloid.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
Before:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8752/17270788245_abd5ca21f2_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8721/16648348754_6f433a8b9c_b.jpg
After:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8772/16650569833_1ccc2e5f66_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8752/17270786965_ab20a10841_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8740/17269001872_d4afa3521b_b.jpg
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7727/17270271751_e2503db27b_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7696/17270270861_f203fb6625_b.jpg
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https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8783/16650563243_0d7711c7aa_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7676/17270267391_9745c1a865_b.jpg
This is a small green striped celluloid no name purse pen.
This pen has issues. It had quite a few issues actually, but I managed to make this one a user again. I picked it up at an antique store. It was in rough shape. It had a cheap steel nib that was beyond saving. It had been a chew toy. It was caked in ink. The sac was ossified. It has plating loss on the rings. The rings are loose and spin around like a dance party. It used to be a ring top but the ring top is missing.
And oh yeah, this is the stinkiest celluloid pen I have ever handled. Normally celluloid has a faint odor that identifies it. This is ridiculous. It is a stinker for sure. Be warned.
I cleaned the pen thoroughly, I replaced the rubber sac with a silicon sac so that the celluloid does not degrade. I replaced the old steel nib with a Fountain Pen Revolution #5 flex nib. I wet sanded the living crap out of the entire pen, paying close attention to the bits that were used as chew toys. I inked the pen up and wrote two pages with it. It seems to write ok but I set the pen down to fiddle with something else and when I picked it back up it didn't want to start until I slid my finger down the nib slit. It might not be transferring air very good without a breather hole. It beats me but it wrote good for two pages and them some more after a little fiddling so I'd call it useable as far as vintage pens go.
The lever/sac system kinda sucks on a pen this tiny. I operated the lever and it drew up ink but only about a 25% fill due to the small stature of the filling system. To get a nice fill you have to tap the pen a few times in your hand to make the ink move down to the tail then actuate the lever again while upright, flip it over and fill it again. I got about a 80% fill that way.
I have the section friction fit into the barrel. It can be pulled out but seems snug enough to use. I DO NOT LIKE SHELLACING the sections to the body unless it is crazy loose. Celluloid gets too soft too fast for servicing easily. I try not to screw the next guy by shellacing celluloid.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
Before:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8752/17270788245_abd5ca21f2_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8721/16648348754_6f433a8b9c_b.jpg
After:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8772/16650569833_1ccc2e5f66_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8752/17270786965_ab20a10841_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8740/17269001872_d4afa3521b_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7662/17083020558_c94848e7b2_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7727/17270271751_e2503db27b_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7696/17270270861_f203fb6625_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7727/17269001322_014d35ff8d_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8786/17244815606_04312913a2_b.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8783/16650563243_0d7711c7aa_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7676/17270267391_9745c1a865_b.jpg