Eversharp " Skyline" Ballpoint,

[rhr]

Here's an Eversharp "Skyline" with a blue-striped cap and a navy blue barrel, but here's the interesting thing about it. It has an aluminum section that has either been anodized, or particle-coated, or enameled a dark cobalt blue, and it has a simple curved-cone tip that holds a proprietary ballpoint refill that screws into the section. The section does not have to be removed to exchange the refill. The barrel has no imprints and no air-holes, and it shows no signs of ever having had a lever that has been removed, so it is definitely factory made and not an after-market adaptation or customization. So, Syd, what's the model name and catalogue number for this one?

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrpen/Skylinebpen1.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrpen/Skylinebpen2.jpg

 

George Kovalenko.

 

Edited September 20, 2010 by rhr

[ToasterPastry]

I'm not an expert in any sense of the imagination. However, I also have come across a "Skyline" ballpoint, that did not have the aluminum rod. But the section narrowed so much, that no nib could fit in it. Therefore, it must have been a ballpoint. In other words, it looked just like this.

[Wahlnut]

George,

It is an EVERSHARP CA (Capillary Action) Pen Model #25 or 25L (lady's) depending on size. The 25 series was in the Skyline design. There were Fifth Avenue CA pens too. They were the Models 26, 27 and there was a repeater (click) version in all metal, but that one did not have the screw in refill. These pens sold for $3.95 new inABOUT 1946-7.

SYD

Edited September 20, 2010 by Wahlnut

[rhr]

Thanks, Syd. About the only book that shows the pen is the Gostony and Schneider ballpoint book, but it isn't called a "CA" there. It appears on the same page as some paper for "CA Repeater" refills, but I couldn't make the leap. Also, the refill pictured there is the spiral one that I have seen in the "Fifth Avenue CA" and "CA Repeater" pens, and not the straight, long one in my pen.

 

Do you want to cross-post your answer to the topics I started on L&P and Pentrace, or do you mind if I do it for you?

 

George Kovalenko.

 

Edited September 21, 2010 by rhr

[penguinmaster]

As he said I think the weird part though is the section is aluminum. I have lots of CA's none of the sections are aluminum, all of them are plastic.

[Richard]

As he said I think the weird part though is the section is aluminum. I have lots of CA's none of the sections are aluminum, all of them are plastic.

Now that is odd in my experience. I've handled dozens of the Fifth Avenue CAs and a few of the Skyline variety, and I've never seen one with a plastic section. Here are my two CAs:

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/coll/zoomed/ca_blue.jpg

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/coll/zoomed/ca_skyline.jpg

 

(Both have been retrofitted to take Parker refills.)

[penguinmaster]

As he said I think the weird part though is the section is aluminum. I have lots of CA's none of the sections are aluminum, all of them are plastic.

Now that is odd in my experience. I've handled dozens of the Fifth Avenue CAs and a few of the Skyline variety, and I've never seen one with a plastic section. Here are my two CAs:

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/coll/zoomed/ca_blue.jpg

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/coll/zoomed/ca_skyline.jpg

 

(Both have been retrofitted to take Parker refills.)

 

I'll have to look at mine a lot closer then. Maybe were having a semantic issue, the silver part I get is aluminum, the the colored "section" behind it I'm pretty sure in mine are plastic.

 

BTW, Richard i sent you two of my CA's to convert (with some extra parts if you remember) I was pretty sure those were plastic as well. One is usually in my daily rotation, but murphy's law today I took a Rotring 600 bp instead!

 

-Tom

[Richard]

BTW, Richard i sent you two of my CA's to convert (with some extra parts if you remember) I was pretty sure those were plastic as well.

Nope, they were both aluminum. Celluloid barrels, aluminum gripping sections. The visible metal cone (part of the ball unit) appears to be nickel silver, not aluminum.

[penguinmaster]

BTW, Richard i sent you two of my CA's to convert (with some extra parts if you remember) I was pretty sure those were plastic as well.

Nope, they were both aluminum. Celluloid barrels, aluminum gripping sections. The visible metal cone (part of the ball unit) appears to be nickel silver, not aluminum.

 

WEIRD! Well learn something new everyday I guess!

[Dermo]

Apologies for reviving an old thread but I recently acquired a Skyline ballpoint just like the one pictured in the original post (though in a different colour). The problem I have is that I cannot unscrew either the section or the refill by hand. Admittedly, I did not use a lot of pressure for fear of breaking something. Is there anything I can do (e.g. soaking , applying heat) to encourage section and refill to unscrew?