Wander over to Ebay item 280214143995. At 2:30pm it was hovering around $900. That seems.... high.

Way way more than I would pay, but hey - what do I know?

Erick

Hmmm... For starters, the price is not outside the pale for retail on an excellent pen. It is after all the first style oversized (Supersize) 100 year pen. Perhaps the fellow selling it rooted around the internet and found some evil retailer who had just sold one for some price or another, say like in this ad done by a no-doubt hack-amateur photographer



Given the pattern on the bidding history, i sense that the reserve on the pen in the auction you cite was $895 rather than the price having been achieved through simple no-reserve action. Perhaps then, the seller set his price at about the level of the pen he'd spied on the net. Or... perhaps coincidences happen. Archeology is such a difficult task

Now, i note that these are VERY tricky pens. That many have internal stress marks crazing and cracking, and that some do not survive restoration. One ought to be careful paying retail for a pen which has not been carefully checked. Still, some of the pens found on ebay are staggeringly clean. One can but hope.

I have seen these sell for a bit more.

regards

david