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Hello all. I just won this set off eBay. Would any of you far more knowledgeable people be able to identify it for me?

 

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFg4Nzc=/z/RLQAAOSwMpZUpqHS/$_57.JPG

Don't worry about telling me I've bought a dud - it only cost me a tenner.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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It might be the Student Set from the early 1970s ..... 70 - 72

 

If you search the Book Conway Stewart Numbers site you may find it.

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If no one else can help here is the link

 

http://jonathandonahaye.conwaystewart.info/csbook/cslist.htm

 

Good luck, and not a bad price for a boxed set .... have you tried it yet?

 

A Tom Waits fan ? :thumbup:

 

Thanks for your help - looks like I've got some trawling to do!

 

And yes, massively so! :vbg:

 

£10? score!

 

Am I right in thinking all CS's had 14k nibs? I'd bet its a star.

 

This is my thinking. Either I've got a massive bargain or I've just busted a tenner. No great loss.

 

Let's just hope the seller doesn't get upset and forget to send it...

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I have a FP like this (only in black) which I picked up at a car boot sale several years ago. I would think it dates from around 1972-74 and mine has a steel "Smoothline" nib made in USA. I believe I paid 50p for mine but is in very poor condition, in fact I had to dig it out from the garage.

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So, it's got one of these Smoothline made in the USA nibs.

 

I'll be honest, first impressions were not good. The pen is in good nick but feels cheap. The threads that screw various bits of the pen together were hardly smooth and it's very plasticky. The feed looks like a bit of Lego.

 

However, that nib though. Smooth and quite possibly ever so slightly stubby. Downstrokes are subtly wider than crossstrokes. Very smooth, very wet. Also, the pen is pretty much the colour of Diamine Salamander, which didn't have a home until now.

 

The ballpoint is *rhymes with clucking spit* but who cares about that?

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