I'll preface this with the fact that I am sitting here chuckling because I am writing to all of you about a $1 pen.
A couple of years ago in an estate sale, I bought a dozen or so pens. Several were broken and had to be thrown away. There were two Sheaffer student pens from the 50's that were fine after a little cold water soak. I was able to get the Parker VS (1947) up and running with a little help. For $14, I felt pretty good about life.
Last week, I decided I wanted to try to get that last pen going. It's a Wearever and all I wanted to know was if it would write, and of course, there's no converter and it won't take any normal cartridges. I found an auction on eBay and ended up with a pen and 12 cartridges still in the blister pack.
IMG_3818 by Shannon Killion, on Flickr
Is there any reason at all for me not to open this up? It's not going to be worth a fortune in a few years is it?
Thanks for humoring me!
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