Scooby921
November 8th, 2015, 07:28 PM
We celebrated Fountain Pen Day in the office last Friday. Apparently placing a few signs around the office the day before prompted a few co-workers to find and bring in some fountain pens they had lying around the house. Sammyo came to my desk holding a Wearever Pacemaker that someone had handed to him. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. The week prior I had seen Inkluminati's photos from the pen show and I was very intrigued by one of the pens he found. Sammyo knew what it was and directed me to some other pictures on the web. So it was quite exciting to suddenly be holding nearly the same pen!
I don't know the whole back story, but I believe it was found in a garage while cleaning and tossed into a drawer for many years. It's pretty obvious it was someone's daily writer for a while as there are plenty of tooth marks in the blind cap and it's a bit deformed.
Before restoring / polishing:
Clip and band are tarnished. Body is scratched, dirty, and dull. Feed is full of dried up ink. Nib is dirty and tarnished.
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2568_zpszayzfihx.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2565_zps6dzkbplc.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2564_zpsaw2jjphu.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2537_zpsaezibo9z.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2533_zpsgenankmh.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2534_zps8vgjsn32.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2532_zpsxjavd7u7.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2530_zpsrkgxlo7s.jpg
I don't know the whole back story, but I believe it was found in a garage while cleaning and tossed into a drawer for many years. It's pretty obvious it was someone's daily writer for a while as there are plenty of tooth marks in the blind cap and it's a bit deformed.
Before restoring / polishing:
Clip and band are tarnished. Body is scratched, dirty, and dull. Feed is full of dried up ink. Nib is dirty and tarnished.
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2568_zpszayzfihx.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2565_zps6dzkbplc.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2564_zpsaw2jjphu.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2537_zpsaezibo9z.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2533_zpsgenankmh.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2534_zps8vgjsn32.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2532_zpsxjavd7u7.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z297/bwithorn/Pens/IMG_2530_zpsrkgxlo7s.jpg