Help Me Identify, Pleaaaaaseeee....

[tringle]

I have this Waterman "Taperite" this lever filler with chrome trim comes with a matching pencil. I need to find someone with a new nib unit, I purchased one awhile back, but to my disappointment the replacement was too wide, this pen is more slender, but has the hooded nib. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you!


Troy

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Uncle Red]

Well, that's a stumper. It is a standard size Taperite. Is it made in Canada?

[tringle]

Uncle Red - the pen is USA made.....has a large star on the cap too. Really a nice solid pen, and pencil. The nib is firm.

[Ernst Bitterman]

A star on the cap suggests a Corinth or a Stateleigh; gold-filled cap for the latter, "Astralite" steel for the former. The decoration looks more like the Stateleigh in my catalogue, but that clip doesn't seem right for Waterman in general.

[tringle]

Ernst - I am confused by the pen I expected a Watermans signed clip. I had the box, however my dog as a puppy destroyed the box and insert a couple of years ago. That is a painful story for another time..

 

 

Thank you!

 

Troy

Edited August 28, 2014 by tringle

[Ernst Bitterman]

I just realized-- threads on the barrel! As far as I know, the models I mentioned were only ever slip-cap models. It begins to wander into the realm of "Another of those vexing Watermans no one knows the name for."

 

Does the cap indeed have the Waterman name on it anywhere?

[Uncle Red]

Here's an ad from 1953 that may be some help.

 

[Ernst Bitterman]

Sometimes I want to haul Waterman USA out of its grave and slap its de-fleshed face. Moving from slip-cap to threaded on the Crusader? Loonies!

 

Notice, though, that the clips are just as we all expect them to be. This element is really bugging me, and I start to wonder if this isn't something put out by Bic during the brief time they were keeping the aformentioned corpse up and walking around in the latter part of the '50s. The clip isn't quite the same as on this C/C (or, as it was known in the Bic period, the #298), but there are resonances in the shape of it:

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Waterman-0322.jpg

 

I think our mystery guest is not a Leader; they didn't come with Taperite sections, and the cap decor is rather different:

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Waterman-0374pp.jpg

[tringle]

When I get back from the mountains I will post detailed pictures of the pen and pencil, if I am not mistaken the pen and pencil do have Waterman signature on the cap.

 

T

 

Have a great weekend!

[Left FPN]

Ernst, you have such a great way with words.

[Ernst Bitterman]

[Uncle Red]

Yes, "What were you thinking?" is a question I'd love to ask the Waterman folks.