Congrats on the successful restorations.
And those letter flourishes ... so good.
Congrats on the successful restorations.
And those letter flourishes ... so good.
Cyril (June 1st, 2022)
Lovely! What's the ink?
Mabie Todds writing with my home made "THEMES RIVER INK"
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At last all my Swan Mabie Todds are in a safe case.
And this is complete family photo with many pens added to my " MABIE ADDICTION".
This photo looks a "crappy shot' as it was done by my Crappy iPhone.
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Last edited by Cyril; October 4th, 2021 at 10:27 AM.
eachan (October 4th, 2021), Robalone (December 24th, 2021), Schaumburg_Swan (October 4th, 2021), Scrawler (January 15th, 2022), Yazeh (October 4th, 2021)
Just added a new pen.
Mabie Todds " DESK PEN Jade " with a medium flexible nib.
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eachan (December 21st, 2021), Schaumburg_Swan (December 21st, 2021), Scrawler (January 3rd, 2022), Yazeh (December 21st, 2021)
Schaumburg_Swan (December 21st, 2021)
Schaumburg_Swan (January 2nd, 2022), Yazeh (December 24th, 2021)
Schaumburg_Swan (January 2nd, 2022), Yazeh (January 2nd, 2022)
I certainly will enjoy seeing them. I find those Swans with the Art Deco clip are almost always flexible.
Schaumburg_Swan (January 2nd, 2022)
Schaumburg_Swan aka SchaumburgSwan
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136145166@N02/albums
That's something for me to think about, Jens!
eachan (January 3rd, 2022), Schaumburg_Swan (January 3rd, 2022), Scrawler (January 3rd, 2022), Yazeh (January 3rd, 2022)
This is a fairly niche subject, so information is thin on the ground, but the best I've come across is ..that the overfeed , be it a gold bar or just the HR 'over/under' feed, is there to help keep the ink up to the point when the nib is flexed and the tines separate . It sorta makes sense, and in the pens I have with these systems, it works well .
Yazeh (January 4th, 2022)
I've also heard it said that the gold overfeed helps prevent drying out.
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In case you missed it in the other forum,
Here's a Swan SF 242/53 pen and 172/53 pencil.
eachan (January 14th, 2022), Jon Szanto (January 14th, 2022), Schaumburg_Swan (January 13th, 2022), Scrawler (January 28th, 2022), Yazeh (January 13th, 2022)
Cyril (June 1st, 2022), Jon Szanto (January 14th, 2022), mizgeorge (January 14th, 2022), Robalone (January 14th, 2022), Yazeh (January 14th, 2022)
Oh my, it never dawned on me that I hadn't posted in this thread! (I uploaded to the new pen thread). Last September my wife surprised me by going in cahoots with dear Deb and Eachan of Goodwriters Pens, and gifted me for my birthday. Unique to my collection now are this handsome Mabie Todd Swan 0160 Leverless pen (UK, c1940s) and an earlier Todd pencil from the US branch. The chatelaine pencil has the loveliest hand engraving pattern.
I am blessed by these objects from the past, and the beautiful people who gifted me with them.
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Chrissy (January 14th, 2022), Cyril (February 5th, 2022), eachan (January 14th, 2022), fountainpenkid (January 14th, 2022), junglejim (January 15th, 2022), mizgeorge (January 14th, 2022), penwash (January 15th, 2022), Robalone (January 15th, 2022), Schaumburg_Swan (January 14th, 2022), Scrawler (January 15th, 2022), Yazeh (January 14th, 2022)
That's a lovely looking leverless...how big is it? The coding has always confused me and I guess it's different with these than the later streamlined 4XXX models
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
fountainpenkid (January 14th, 2022)
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