I blieve this is a 1940ish Waterman. It has a nice green pearlized celluloid body and a deco, military style clip. It's a little larger than an Esterbrook J. I've seen a couple of photos of similar pens around, but don't have a positive ID on the model. When it was manufactured, it was probably a middle tier pen from a first tier company. This one has a fine, flexible 14K Ideal nib, and writes like a dream.

have the number buried at home somewhere. Can be found in regular and short ("v") size.

352? 351? 532? something like that. Often have weird convex section t' boot.

-david

I am waiting on a similar pen that will be arriving in the next couple of days. It has a label on it that says "352, Fine Flex, $3.50."
Is there anything more concrete anyone can say about the pen? I'm just curious about it and want to lear what I can before it arrives.

I have a couple of these pens. The section is usually very difficult to remove for re sacing. It helps to heat them first by soaking in hot tapwater. Don't force it or the barrel may crack. Some of them come with nicely flexible nibs.

I have one of these that was restored, in blue with a stub nib and a wet feed. It doesn't get used very much (i.e., not at all). I must revisit it.

Fred

Be careful with soaking in hot tap water. The section of the pen might be made of hard rubber (I have a W3, which is quite similar to this one and has a hard rubber section). Water can discolor hard rubber.
I would rather recommend a hair dryer if you need heat to remove the section for resac.

Looks like my skywriter, except for the clip:

The one I have was believed to be a Dauntless.

That looks very much like the one I just won



This is the best picture I have so far. I will hopefully have it soon.

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I am surprised to hear that Waterman was still using hard rubber sections in the 1940's which is the time frame I presume these pens were made. I am also presuming they were among the last pens made before they were taken over by Parker.