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Help Needed: How To Date A Wahl Eversharp Skyline Fountain Pen


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Hi folks! I acquired my very first Wahl Eversharp Skyline fountain pen today. I was supposed to get a burgundy-colored Parker 51 (they were the same price) but the collector I bought it from also brought this pen over. I must admit the color (hunter green) and the way it wrote helped make the decision easier. After trying out both pens, I was pretty much sold on how well this pen wrote. Also, I had another Parker 51 on the way to me, so I thought I'd try this out because I haven't used any kind of Wahl Eversharp before.

 

I would like to ask if anybody can help me identify what year this pen was made. I'm not sure if Wahl Eversharp also has date codes like Parker pens do or I need to rely on design clues to figure out when it was made. I hope the photos below can help. Thanks in advance!

 

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The pen looks great, very nice marine green color too.

 

There are a few sources that give excellent background:

- www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Eversharp/EversharpSkyline.htm)

- www.richardspens.com/ (search for 'skyline')

- www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/118666-the-skyline/

 

From these sources I learned that:

Production year of the Skylines was 1941-1948. Skylines have no date code so identifying the production date of an individual pen is not easy if impossible.

The early (1941-42) Skylines had a visulated section (a section with an ink window) and they also had an ink drain/ink wick inside the section, instead of a breather tube.

 

Hope this helps.

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Beautiful Skyline and congratulations on being ballpoint free!

 

I'm not sure you can date Skylines to a particular year but the solid color pens like yours (and my Dubonnet Red Skyline) are likely made of polystyrene instead of celluloid. IIRC, polystyrene became more common during the war so I put my Skyline at mid-1940s...and that's about the best I can do.

 

As Joris said, your pen is 'Marine Green', so named after the U.S. Marines - Eversharp's nod to patriotism during the war. There was an Army Brown and a Navy Blue version as well.

 

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Thank you, these information are very helpful. :) I like to learn about the pens that I enjoy using and write about them a bit. Using "Marine Green" did come up with more search results. ^_^

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