Recently a local auction house listed fountain pens. Couldn't pass this one up. Very rare to see pens at the local auctions. As if they didn't write here in the olden days. I know better. So did 2 other bidders. We ended up splitting up the bounty. I'm not so sure they were all that happy to meet a new pen guy.

One of my wins consisted of a box lot of about 20 pens all needing restoration. Among the pens were these Wahl Eversharp items. Of course I inspected prior to the auction but when the bidding began I really did not know what was up for bid with each lot. The auctioneer did not dwell on each item in the lot - so you just go for it.



Happily among the lot I found the 4 Skylines shown, 1 Skyline parts pen, 1 blue Symphony (my first pen as a youngster which now I am not), 1 Park Ave, 1 sterling silver MP, 1 Jade MP missing its clip, and a small eye catching blue marbled NoName with a Wahl Oxford nib and a "docked" tail which has turned into a daily writer that is a pleasure to use.





Here is my question. What should the "docked" tail of the NoName with a Wahl Oxford nib pen look like. The cap has a black round button on the end. I would guess the body also had a similar button. However I have never seen any similar pens to confirm this. Anyone know sumpthin about this out there?

That blue marbled pen is really beautiful! Good haul!

Can anyone help identify the blue marbled pen and what the docked tail should look like?

RichKen,

I see you have bumped up this message or reevised it. I saw the first one, but I had nothing much to offer on the subject. Noticing how you are continuing to search for answers here on the Wahl-Eversharp forum, , the least I can do as moderator, in the absence of anyone else stepping up with something to contribute, is to address some of the issues about the pen.

The process of identifying the blue marble pen with the Wahl Oxford nib in it, can only be started here by stating that it is to the best of my knowledge not a Wahl or Eversharp product. The nib was certainly a replacement for whatever was originally installed in the pen. The clip is not a Wahl Eversharp design that I recognize. The nib really has no bearing on what brand of pen the pen is either. So the best I can offer is to advise that asking the general pen forums on this and perhaps other lists may prove more fruitful becasue someone there might recognize the plastic material or other characteristics of your pen and be able to point you in the right direction. Also, many pens were made that never carried a manufactrers name and were sold to any number of retailers for resale.

What you describe as a button on the end looks from the pictues to be a black dome at the end of the cap. My guess from other general pen design characteristics is that the barrel had a similar dome on its end, but got damaged somehow and was cut back to a point above the damage.

I have seen other no name pens from the 20's and 30's that were made in Hard Rubber or silver overlay with that type of cap and barrel end shape. Plastics did not come into pens until the 20's so from a date-made standpoint, it could not reasonably not have been made before about 1925. The clip attachment method on the pen was not often used before about 1933-5, so that would push the date up by about 10 years..

Thats about the best I can do at the moment. The Lion And Pen list has a few "academics" on there that seem to have a wide knowledge of small pen comapanies. Maybe try there too..

Syd the Wahlnut

Thank you Syd. I'll try your suggestions.