Hello from Canada

[onedumbtrucker]

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

[penspouse]

Welcome. What a nice inheritance and a wonderful way to remember your great grandfather.

[dannzeman]

onedumbtrucker, Welcome! We're glad to have ya.
That Mabie Todd Swan eyedropper sounds like an interesting pen! Do you have pics you can share with us? We all just love pictures!

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[onedumbtrucker]

I apologize for the number of pictures but I took 53 pictures with my phone just to get a few decent ones

The inscription reads;

Presented to
T. Taylor Esq.
by
T. Moscrop & Co. Ltd.
1900 - 1921

Hope you all find it interesting,
Dan

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