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Has anyone seen this before? It's a sold 9ct gold Onoto. But zoom in on the feed! The freaking feed is gold! I wonder what kind of slave trading-tobacco baron-crofter clearer commissioned this back in the day!

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261596670434/

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On the overfeed too, though? From photos 3 and 5 it looks like solid gold.

 

Unless he insisted on GOLD ink to write his letters. On GOLD paper. To take to the postoffice on a solid GOLD bicycle. Snipping a sliver off his GOLD tie to pay for the stamp, of course.

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Curiousity got the better of me, and I had to ask... the over-under feed is gold!

Interesting. I don't know anything about Onotos, so I have no idea if this is unusual or not. Did you say something like: "Is this feed gold?" or "What is the feed made of? It looks unusual...." when contacting the seller? (The seller has yet to actually post any q&a about the pen -- sometimes sellers do but sometimes not.)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

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I have also a Mabie Todd & Bard 4663 from 1906 with over/under feed made from gold coloured metal. Because of the metal available I assume it is gold. Inside the mouth piece is also some ebonite. On the other side there are sticking out two and partly twisted silver wires reaching to the end of the pen.

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At hand the color of the underfeed looks like the underside of the nib, but on the photo I am not sure anymore that this is gold and not ebonite.

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Actually these wires are more freaking than they appear on this photo. When starting screwing the pen open or at the end of the closing the wires really scratch inside the pen.with cracking noises.

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Hello Flounder,

 

I hope you let this one pass by; the pen is absolutely worthless... it hasn't any pocket clip.

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

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- He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me; and I in him. (JN 6:57)

- "A woman clothed in the sun," (REV 12.1); The Sun Danced at Fatima, Portugal; October 13, 1917.

- Thank you Blessed Mother and St. Jude for Graces and Blessings obtained from Our Lord.

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I'm resurrecting this thread to mention that I saw an eBay Onoto last week, conventional BHR albiet with gold bands on the cap lip and barrel, with another gold (coloured) feed. Did anyone else see it? It went for about £30 IIRC.

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I'm resurrecting this thread to mention that I saw an eBay Onoto last week, conventional BHR albiet with gold bands on the cap lip and barrel, with another gold (coloured) feed. Did anyone else see it? It went for about £30 IIRC.

Have you a link? I tend to watch them and didn't see that one.

 

Thanks

 

Cob

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What a lovely pen - thanks.

 

My banded one must be the el cheapo version - no nice chasing and I think that the bands are rolled gold

 

Sadly I am not allowed t post any pictures as i have apparently exceed my allotted "disk space"

 

Is that the end for ever for me? Must I register under another name?

 

EDIT - all is now explained. Here's my banded model:

 

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Someone DM'd you the stealth "More" then "Upload" secrets, didn't they?

 

"No, Mr. Cob, I expect you to..." Dunh, dunh, duhhh! ;)

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