I received this Cross pen from my dad a couple weeks ago. It writes like a charm and the nib is slightly flexible and writes very smoothly. The nib is yellow gold, but I have no idea of its purity. Can anyone please help me to identify this pen? I'm guessing that it is 90's era, but I can't be sure.
Thanks!

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Black lacquer body


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The clip is engraved with "cross"


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Screw-on top; medium size nib with some ornamentation, a breathing hole and the word "cross"


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The side of the nib. I can see no external anchors for the gold part of the nib (such as on the Lamy pens)


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Uses standard Cross cartridges (which are very handy, might I add)


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All of the parts

Cross "Solo." I believe it was a subcontract job by Namiki/Pilot. It is considered a keeper and they don't seem to change hands very often.

The nib and trim are stainless steel plated with 23k gold (seems to be a good, wear-resistant plating job, too); the cap and barrel are acrylic. I'm not sure what you meant by "anchors", but if you look at the underside of the feed, you'll see that it has shoulders that fit against the nib for alignment. I *think* the Solo was introduced in 1994, and produced until a few years ago.

-- Brian

Thanks a lot. I really like the way the pen writes.
23 karat gold? wow.

Finally I understand why I can change the nib section on my Pilot/Namiki Custom 66 with this Cross pens... fantastic!
BTW it is a excellent pen for it's value and it writes beautifully with the 14K Pilot #5 gold nib

That pen would be a Solo Classic. The regular Solo was trimmed in black. They also did a Solo with Chrome Trim
in the Classic colors like Black, Blue, Burgundy and Green. I sold a TON of those back in the 90's when I was in retail.
They even did specialty Solo pens with sublimated prints and pad printing for Hallmark. I think I still have some that
were even packaged with Flower Seeds and Journals. Those were great little pens. I gave them to most of my family
and most of them are still in use nearly 10 years later.

Dave M