I have been watching these pens on E-Bay and want one but with a tight budget and an Esterbrook/Wearever habit to feed, they most of the time go beyond my price range. Here is an example of one I was going to get but since I already plan on a Wearever from a fellow FPN'r it went , again, beyond the budget. These pens usually go for Esterbrook prices or more and I was wondering why. For me, the celluloid colors and designs are always eye catching but are they a really good "functional" pen?

How bizarre - they are pretty much 3rd tier "junk pens". I would not expect them to pull Esterbrook prices - but you never know. I collect Truepoints, and find they can shoot up for no understandable reason.

I wonder if they get a certain popularity from gun owners (thought I believe there was never any association with the Remington guns, except for the use of the name, which I am sure was intentional). Also, maybe the bidders on this one had no clue that under the 14K it had the words "Gold Plate" buried in the section.

Pretty celluloids do tend to bring in a better price.

John

They look to me like one of the numerous lower end Balance knock-offs you see from the 1930s.

The thing is that the cost I linked in my OP is not an uncommn price. I have seen them go for a little more. The gun connection is a thought

Using my proprietary software I got :

Item 180232520196 listed at $6.99 not sold
Item 230239160652 listed at $4.99 (stratford Saltz brothers pen and Diamond point and Remington pencil) not sold
Item 190204810553 listed at $7.00 not sold.
Item 200214227260 listed at $8.99 (set) not sold
Item 130196614403 listed at $9.99 not sold
Item 220201516047 listed at $19.99 not sold (3 pens - Remington Parkette Wearever
Item 130198139546 listed at $24.99 not sold
Item 180234588665 sold at $5.99
Item 110241261008 sold at $7.99
Item 180230276414 sold at $9.99
Item 180234372612 sold at $11.75
Item 330230907636 sold at $20.50
Item 150215596616 sold at $21.06 two Remington pens
Item 330212712917 sold at $23.50
Item 120222255293 sold at $26.52
Item 110247894481 sold at $29.12
Item 280212429522 sold at $38.73
Item 330212835831 sold at $57.00

Of course the crazyness is with the eaby shops
Item 6615989730 listed at 85.00

Well, based on the above, I need to pay more attention

I own a couple of low end Remingtons (What do you call the low end of a third tier pen line?), both piston fillers with large transparent sections in the middle. They are sort of pretty plastic but the appeal to me is that both are super smooth writers with medium nibs that fit my hand. They were also very inexpensive, less than the prices in a previous post. Both tend to be a little on the wet side with Noodler's Red or Nikita but they also hold a lot of ink. I consider them almost ideal for heavy grading/marking sessions when hand fatigue could be a problem. I have other pens that are nicer on the eye but very few that are as much fun to write with.

Every day is a chance to reduce my level of ignorance.

Now I LIKE that