QUOTE(CharlieB @ Feb 7 2008, 09:38 PM) [snapback]507122[/snapback]
The pearl gray celluloid was not an "arco". The term "arco" refers to a process of layering thin sheets of celluloid to build up a rod that is then cut at an angle so that the layers come out looking like tree rings. I believe that the only "arco" colors were brown and green. The gray was a "marbled" color, like the blue and the red.
I underwrite this! The pearl gray differed from the other marbled colors, though, as in the rather continuous pearlescent spireally swirl that goes from top to bottom of the pen rather than the pearlescent chunks in the green, red, and blue celluloid. It's hard to photograph in its intricacy.
The pearl grey is a lovely material but, I dread, not as easy to come by anymore, at least in the Paragon shape. The OP might check out Airline International. They might have left one specimen.