Waterman 75 Nibs - WTH?

[sidthecat]

I'm looking around for a broad nib for a Waterman 52 1/2 v (the little ringtop). vintagenibs.com had a couple of nibs labeled "Waterman 75 Made In USA" stamped lengthwise down the nib. It's gold and has a round breather hole and the usual info sources don't seem to mention this model, which is priced like an average vintage nib.

Anybody know anything about them? Are they real?

[Geheim]

i have about a dozen of the 717's and the 75's, 25 each plus shipping conus.

cheers

gsm

[sidthecat]

Thanks, geheim, but it turns out that the 75 nibs don't fit the older models. I ended up buying a #2 Manifold nib.

[LoveBigPensAndCannotLie]

Resurrecting this old thread because I was playing around with a junk Taperite and got the nib out and saw it was a "75" nib. Hadn't seen any before. So if anyone comes back to this in the future - the Waterman "75" nibs are the nibs for the hooded Taperites. Some other Taperite nibs are marked "717" - I am not sure what the difference between the two is.

[I-am-not-really-here]

Those nibs might be A.A. Waterman, not E.L. Waterman. 

[LoveBigPensAndCannotLie]

No, these are definitely from (L.E.) Waterman Taperites. They're just rare to see because people don't knock those out very often. Here's a pic if you're curious, they're very small and a little more curved than a standard nib.

 

 

I'm curious what the 75 stood for...