A Repair Dilemma

[ChrisJ]

I just opened up a Conway Stewart Dinkie 550 (lovely blue marble with golden veins) , to replace the sac and got a lovely surprise

The old hardened sac came out complete and I was surprised to see it was branded

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I've not seen that before and I love the attention to detail , branding a part of the pen which is unlikely ever to be seen outside the factory
I'm also guessing that maybe Conway Stewart supplied branded sacs to 3rd parties possibly

So now I have the dilemma of either repairing the pen and losing a bit of history , or preserving it but leaving the pen unworkable

As sweet as Dinkies are , they are rather on the small side as a EDW, so preservation is winning out