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Wondering if anyone knows what an average 14ct gold nib weighs. Given the gold price, a crappy old $5 pen might be worth its weight in gold.

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Wondering if anyone knows what an average 14ct gold nib weighs. Given the gold price, a crappy old $5 pen might be worth its weight in gold.

 

0.8 to 0.9 gms for a 35mm nib.

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Vintage nib gold scrapping is not a tolerated hobby here at FPN, you're warned......Is as melting the crowns of the Visigoth Kings or the gold Spanish doubloons...or close to it.

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My opinion is, if you want gold, make it an investment of yours. I want to protect my flexy vintage Waterman. :wub:

 

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Vintage nib gold scrapping is not a tolerated hobby here at FPN, you're warned......Is as melting the crowns of the Visigoth Kings or the gold Spanish doubloons...or close to it.

 

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Vintage nib gold scrapping is not a tolerated hobby here at FPN, you're warned......Is as melting the crowns of the Visigoth Kings or the gold Spanish doubloons...or close to it.

 

:clap1: Very well spoken !

 

May be false teeth are a better subject, they don't have the gold polluting nib tip material as well..

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Vintage nib gold scrapping is not a tolerated hobby here at FPN, you're warned......Is as melting the crowns of the Visigoth Kings or the gold Spanish doubloons...or close to it.

 

:clap1: Very well spoken !

 

May be false teeth are a better subject, they don't have the gold polluting nib tip material as well..

 

Or gold bars :thumbup:

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Vintage nib gold scrapping is not a tolerated hobby here at FPN, you're warned......Is as melting the crowns of the Visigoth Kings or the gold Spanish doubloons...or close to it.

 

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+1 here, as well. Melting down nibs for their gold is often not worth the effort, anyway. You spend so much trying to do it and the amount of gold you get out of it is negligable. You would get more for the pen as a whole instead of just the gold from the nib.

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Wondering if anyone knows what an average 14ct gold nib weighs. Given the gold price, a crappy old $5 pen might be worth its weight in gold.

 

Actually, that crappy old gold nib is worth far more than the value of the gold in it.

 

One of the great tragedies of the 70s and 80s was when gold had its spurt and folk sold off nibs as scrap.

 

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Vintage nib gold scrapping is not a tolerated hobby here at FPN, you're warned......Is as melting the crowns of the Visigoth Kings or the gold Spanish doubloons...or close to it.

 

:clap1: Very well spoken !

 

May be false teeth are a better subject, they don't have the gold polluting nib tip material as well..

 

Or gold bars :thumbup:

 

Most of the bars around here seem to be mahogany, sometimes walnut, never gold.

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Let's not knee-jerk this thing, but apply the numbers. A 0.9g pen point is, in scrap, worth $30? Probably less, as it's 14k (58.5% Au, the remainded being, I believe, copper, bee parts and wiener flavour), but we'll leave that. Anyone selling a point as a point, taking into account relative scarcity and the fact that it's not just a fragment of gold but a carefully worked artifact, will be looking at rather more than $30-- A quick look at the handy value chart on Jim Mottishaw's site shows with a few exceptions a low-end of $40 and highs in excess $200, all of which is I suspect not right up to date. It's worth more as the thing it is than it is reduced to its elemental nature.

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Yep. That's about $30.

 

I wonder how much a Pelikan M1000 nib weighs.

 

That would only be for a 24K nib, which are precious few.

 

An 18K nib of .8 ounce weight is closer to $21.

A 14K nib (the most common for vintage) is around $18.

 

That is spot prices, of course, not necessarily what a dealer would pay to buy the gold. Most of the "Sell your gold Jewelry" places that have turned up of late buy for a 30-40% less than spot.

 

Many vintage nibs were lighter and thinner than .8 grams. Most nibs are worth more as nibs than as scrap, unless they are badly damaged.

 

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To add to this, first you need to make sure your pen is worth only $5. Are you sure of that? Probably worth a bit more, especially if it has a gold nib and if that nib is flexible add a few more dollars on top. As long as the pen works it is worth more than the raw gold price and as pointed out above you do not get the exchange price (you never will the person buying it needs to make money). The thing I remember from the last time this topic went around is that the price for gold needs to be over $1,500 before nibs are worth more for scrap and probably $2,000. That analysis assumes that the price of pens does not inflate, which is probably a stupid assumption. What you pay for in a nib is more for the work done than the material used. Selling a nib for scrap only makes sense if it is broken. One caveat here, if the pen is broken but the nib (maybe the nib & feed) is fine you might get more selling it for parts, seriously.

 

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Wondering if anyone knows what an average 14ct gold nib weighs. Given the gold price, a crappy old $5 pen might be worth its weight in gold.

 

So let's make a deal - any pen you find with a gold nib - I will pay you for the weight of the nib at current gold prices if you send me the fountain pen.

 

Thank you,

 

 

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jkorten wrote:

 

"So let's make a deal - any pen you find with a gold nib - I will pay you for the weight of the nib at current gold prices if you send me the fountain pen."

 

Dang! You beat me to it! B)

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Generally pens are worth more than the gold in their nibs, even if the pen itself is in bad shape.

 

The exception of course is damaged nibs - which may or may not be worth more. I have some badly cracked "Warranted" nibs, or nibs missing tines (not just tipping - the whole tine!). Eventually some of these will probably make their way to scrap because they really are beyond repair.

 

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You should get a Yink, I think.

 

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Always looking for pens by Baird-North, Charles Ingersoll, and nibs marked "CHI"

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Without getting too involved, nibs are small, medium and large. On average they weigh 0.25, 0.5 and 0.7 grams. That's 14k gold, not pure gold. 58% of 0.5g @ $1122 per ounce is about $10.

 

Most gold nibs AS NIBS, are worth more than their scrap gold value.

 

 

 

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Keep in mind that the gold prices quoted every day ("the price of gold at the London fixing") is for .9950 pure gold, called a London Good Delivery Bar, as defined by the London Bullion Markets Association (LBMA). The New York futures price generally plays tag withe the London physicals price.

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It often happens that the "14K" becomes a justification for a higher price. Not always, but often. I have come across gold-nibbed pens that cost less than $5.00, but that's usually because they are Parker 51s, are not marked for gold content, or they have something seriously wrong with them.

 

Some Sheaffer Lifetime nibs might weigh more than 1g. They are quite thick.

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