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FredRydr
November 2nd, 2017, 02:52 PM
https://americanillustration.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Her-Eyes-Were-Made-to-Worship_HR.jpg
"Her Eyes Were Made to Worship" by Harrison Fisher
cover Saturday Evening Post - October 10, 1908


SOLD: Waterman's No. 7 full set of seven pens with color-coded nibs. These are the rarer jet-black celluloid (not hard rubber) pens made when the celluloid Patricians were released. Notice the elegant clip, band and lever end. The blue stub "blunt" nib pen (my favorite) was owned and engraved by early 20th-century Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan illustrator Harrison Fisher (https://americanillustration.org/project/harrison-fisher/) (see illustration, above). Here's one of his pen and ink drawings (http://media.findartinfo.com/images/artwork/2015/8/a003851890-001.jpg).

The set includes a flex brown and semi-flex red M. Of course, there's the legendary much-in-demand No. 7 pink EF full flex nib pen that writes wonderfully. The yellow nib has that ball tip that's great for lefties. Then there's the fine and stiff purple. The green is a manifold nib, best nib for carbon copies. Close-ups of the nibs appear in post #9 (below). $3750 including shipping to anywhere in the USA; more elsewhere. I will also include the matching mechanical pencil.

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NB. The jet black pens never had a black nib. As to the mythological white nib, I'll leave that up to the imagination!

yeepers
November 2nd, 2017, 07:13 PM
Swoon!!!

katerchen
November 2nd, 2017, 07:37 PM
I guess if you have to ask the price you can't afford them :p

Did he draw that with fountain pens???

McKool
November 2nd, 2017, 10:40 PM
I passed out just looking at these!

Sagebrush64
November 3rd, 2017, 01:19 AM
Lordy, lordy.....I"m speechless!

penwash
November 3rd, 2017, 05:58 AM
But... but... where's the photo of the nibs...?

:wave:

Lunaelsol
November 3rd, 2017, 10:42 AM
Wonderful set! its buried treasure surfaced ;-)

Memory
November 3rd, 2017, 11:51 PM
Wow. Simply amazing collection. I wish I could make it to the Ohio Pen show and see it in person! Best of luck with your sale.

FredRydr
November 20th, 2017, 01:19 PM
They are all the same size No. 7 nibs. My cropping of the images makes them look different.

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manoeuver
November 20th, 2017, 04:10 PM
gulp.

Sammyo
November 20th, 2017, 08:51 PM
... broken... :jaw:

FredRydr
November 28th, 2017, 08:50 PM
SOLD