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Hi all,

 

Just receantly i have purchased at a fair Set of three pens one of them was MB which I wanted, but I had to buy the whole lot. Please can somebody help me with the other two pens as I have no idea what they are. The one with the signature is custome made in 1929 for supposly A.Kinski can somebody help

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Astoria?

 

if its that case you may be sitting on a gold mine there

'The Yo-Yo maneuver is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well-known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.

So we left it at that. He showed us the maneuver after a sort. B*****d stole my kill.'

-Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF. WWII China.

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Astoria?

 

if its that case you may be sitting on a gold mine there

 

I was thinking the same thing. The first pens looks like an Astoria Safety pen, which if that's the case is probably quite valuable depending on what you paid for the lot.

 

Astoria was a small German pen company that made very high quality fountain pens from the early 1920s to the early 1930s until they were purchased by Montblanc who discontinued the Astoria brand.

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The second of the two pens you've posted (the pen with the intersecting triangles on the top of the cap) is an Astoria. It's a really nice pen and, in my estimation, a better "catch" than the MB you originally sought. Nice pens.

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Beautiful and rare bird that Astoria, what's the number on the nib?Is is "1"?Nib photos of the rest could help.

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talk to fountainbel, He is a member on this forums. Fountainbel is well known and is experienced working with rare german pens, He may hook you up with information, tips, or some repair/restoration. The button filler looks bad. Fountainbel could probably fix it blindfolded.

 

Congrats sir

 

ps he did wonders on a L139 pen which is one of my grail pen, just wow

'The Yo-Yo maneuver is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well-known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.

So we left it at that. He showed us the maneuver after a sort. B*****d stole my kill.'

-Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF. WWII China.

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:W2FPN:

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" Patrick Henry

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" 16 . XII . 1929 " ? December 16, 1929 ?

Has anyone else noticed a lot of yellow metal, and none of it tarnished ? :puddle:

Well played !

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Hi guy`s sorry for my late reply... Thank you for the compliment`s on Astoria. Decided to restore it so when is finished will post NEW pictures...

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