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Please Help Id This Mystery! Kaweco?


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As Octo suggested I've just reposted here from the Frequently Asked Questions forum, hoping someone can help with my mystery pen.

 

Found three mystery pens in the wild today. One is a lovely grey moire celluloid button filler, no name, warranted nib - I had to have it, it is just the most lovely celluloid. One is a little BCHR lever filler with a Waterman Ideal 2 nib, but the pen is a 'DUOPEN' by JB, 33, rue des Acacias, Paris. I've looked them up, but can't find anything about the brand.

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t411/amk-fpn/3pens.jpg

 

The real mystery though is a little (8.3 cm) 'silver' ringtop. It has a horribly mangled Kaweco 102 nib (sorry, it hasn't come out well in the pictures) with 'Kaweco' written across the nib in rather nice calligraphic script. The barrel of the pen telescopes out (length from end of barrel to end of section, 9mm). There is no apparent filling system; the section screws into the barrel so I am guessing it's an eyedropper. Most strange, though, is the little spike on the back of the feed. What on earth does that do? I've seen nothing like it before - I thought at first it might be a breather tube, but it doesn't seem to be hollow. There are no hallmarks, but there's a monogram on the central ring which looks like JPH or JDH, and the word 'silver' stamped. And the decoration is extremely odd; little squiggly incised circles inside zigzag filled lines.

 

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t411/amk-fpn/weirdfeed.jpgI'm utterly mystified by this pen. Everything about it seems wrong. A Kaweco nib, but 'silver' in English. 'Silver' but no hallmarks. A striking pattern that I'd associate with Indian tribal jewellery, not an early fountain pen overlay. A weird feed.

 

Help! Has anyone seen anything like this before?

 

As for the nib, it's going to be a real test of my goldsmithing skills, as not only is it horribly mangled, half the back end of it is also missing (or, possibly, left stuck in the feed somewhere). But I'm going to have a go, even if I end up spending more on gold solder than I did on the pen.

 

 

Too many pens, too little time!

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