onedumbtrucker
May 14th, 2010, 08:59 AM
Hi All,
My name is Dan and I am from London Ontario Canada. My obsession was born a few years ago when I inherited a box of old pens. One of these pens turned out to be a 1918 Mabie Todd Swan eyedropper with a solid gold overlay and a large and very ornamental engraving to my great grandfather on his retirement from Moscrof porcelain in England.
I immediately became consumed with curiosity about this pen, where it came from, who made it and what my great grandfather did for a living.
Since then I have collected and restored mostly old and distinctly patterned celluloid pens like Parkers and Watermans with a few casein Conway Stewarts thrown in for variety. Lately though I developed a VERY unhealthy (to the pocketbook) obsession with Visconti pens and eagerly await my first in the mail (an Art Nouveau) from Bryant at pentime.net.
I am excited to find this new forum for all things FP and look forward to making some new friends here.
Cheers to all,
Dan
My name is Dan and I am from London Ontario Canada. My obsession was born a few years ago when I inherited a box of old pens. One of these pens turned out to be a 1918 Mabie Todd Swan eyedropper with a solid gold overlay and a large and very ornamental engraving to my great grandfather on his retirement from Moscrof porcelain in England.
I immediately became consumed with curiosity about this pen, where it came from, who made it and what my great grandfather did for a living.
Since then I have collected and restored mostly old and distinctly patterned celluloid pens like Parkers and Watermans with a few casein Conway Stewarts thrown in for variety. Lately though I developed a VERY unhealthy (to the pocketbook) obsession with Visconti pens and eagerly await my first in the mail (an Art Nouveau) from Bryant at pentime.net.
I am excited to find this new forum for all things FP and look forward to making some new friends here.
Cheers to all,
Dan