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I got a package of Esterbrook pens today. This is an interesting lot of four black pens. Among them is something I haven't seen before. One of the Dollar pens has "Property of A.T.&T. Co." imprinted on the barrel. This is the first time I've encountered, or seen , this on a Dollar pen. I'd say this was a good buy. It also has one of the wartime 2556 nibs with the flat feed....(edit) which has the tipping broken off one tine when I look at it under my loupe...merde... :wacko:

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Was the fragile clip intact ? Maybe AT&T got a good price on the "out-going" model,

as the J-series arose.

 

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So YOU are the one who got that bundle. I saw that Dollar Skunk - but it went a little too rich for me. Congrats!

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Odd, I've seen one or two of those before, on Dollar Pens. But not any on J-pens; only "Bell System Property ...".

 

Conversely, I've not seen any "Bell System" Dollar Pen skunks. But since they were corporately connected until the sixties or seventies(?). Could it be that ATT bought the Esties for the whole bunch early on, then passed that task on to their various Bell Systems later (perhaps after WWII)? :unsure:

 

Inquiring minds might like to know ... or maybe not .....

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Corporately connected until about 1984. (I worked on a GE system that replaced a tax system that the Bell Operating Companies had used as part of AT&T. I remember the poster in New York Telephone HQ saying, roughly, "Took us a hundred years to build the world's best phone system and a judge just ripped it apart"). Not using Esterbrook fountain pens in the early '80s, however.

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Odd, I've seen one or two of those before, on Dollar Pens. But not any on J-pens; only "Bell System Property ...".

 

Conversely, I've not seen any "Bell System" Dollar Pen skunks. But since they were corporately connected until the sixties or seventies(?). Could it be that ATT bought the Esties for the whole bunch early on, then passed that task on to their various Bell Systems later (perhaps after WWII)? :unsure:

Bzzzzzt! Sorry, wrong you are, Hobi.

Just received a beat-up demi-size dollar parts pen engraved "N.J. BELL TELEPHONE CO." So it looks like the purchase of the pens was done locally.

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Here's the pen. I have some spiffing up to do, and this has a 2668 nib (notice the feed), but the tipping is gone from one tine.

 

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I've also seen this in RED...

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Quick update - there has been something about this barrel that has been bugging me. After further research, I've come to the conclusion that this is an early BHR barrel with the spear lever. Unfortunately, the pen was mated with a newer cap.

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So YOU are the one who got that bundle. I saw that Dollar Skunk - but it went a little too rich for me. Congrats!

 

Congrats may be a bit premature, and this may turn out to be a lot that won't seen much of any return. Now that I've been learning more, and getting some good reference material, this whole lot has issues. All black would seem to be pretty straightforward, but it's in the details that the truth is found.

The AT&T Dollar pen with the BHR barrel has a newer cap, so there's one of four pens that is mismatched.

One of the other dollar pens also has the wrong barrel - as I looked at the flat end and the imprint, it was simply "Esterbrook". My Esterbrook book tells me that this barrel is '44-'47, and should have the newer cap on it. Dollar pens didn't extend this far. So, now I have a lot of four pens (supposedly complete) that has turned into six pens, and needing more pieces to complete. The hunt goes on.

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