The other end of the Estie spectrum...

**Jon Szanto** · January 30th, 2014, 08:13 PM

For those that only know Esterbrook as those relatively cheap pens that go on eBay for around $20 or so, check out the completed auction on a beautiful V-Clip pen. Those early rare ones really can hold their value...

**pajaro** · February 4th, 2014, 07:05 PM

Apparently not that many of those pens survive, and not as many made as Js. The condition looks nice too.

**Jon Szanto** · February 4th, 2014, 11:08 PM

Final price: $212.50. I think only the Relief pens can fetch more than that in the Esterbrook lineage. Maybe the 'Cracked Ice' models, too.

**Scrawler** · February 14th, 2014, 06:06 AM

I wish I had seen that while it was live so that I could lament my inability to participate in the bidding, in real time.

**79spitfire** · February 15th, 2014, 01:21 PM

The clip on the V-clip pens was a bit more fragile, so therefore fewer of them survive in good shape.

**chad.trent** · February 18th, 2014, 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by Jon Szanto

Final price: $212.50. I think only the Relief pens can fetch more than that in the Esterbrook lineage. Maybe the 'Cracked Ice' models, too.

Visumasters will usually go for more than that.

If you can ever find one for sale...

**welch** · February 19th, 2014, 04:22 PM

Any idea what the original price was? My impression is that Esterbrook never made high-end or "gift" pens. Never competed with Parker, Sheaffer, and others. Esterbrook was never the low-end, either: never as cheap as Wearever, Arnold, or Stratford.