I recently purchased this pen.

It clearly recalls the Valentine pens made by Parker, but has the Eversharp imprint on the cap and a 14ct Eversharp nib Made in England!

Roberto, If I am not mistaken the pen is of the same type as the very late Eversharp "Kingswood" Kingswood was an Eversharp brand made in and sold in England. There were earlier Kingswoods that looked different, but the later ones looked like yours (I think). Why the pen you show simply says Eversharp and not kingswood, I have no explanation, but the pen looks the same to me. Anyone else see the similarity or maybe have an exact match that says Kingswood?

I am away from home again, but will look for mine when I get back.
Syd

Whatever it turns out to be, it is quite striking.
John

Nice pen!! Kingswood was Eversharps British arm but I thought they where all imprinted Kingswood. I seem to remember reading somewhere that these were made by an established British manufacturer and a number of different brands came out of the one factory. Again, at the back of my mind, I seem to think that it might have been Valentine (before Parker bought them) that produced these. So your comparison might be right. Disclaimer : I could be completly wrong....!!!

I bought this one from England, no clip or nib but the barrel is marked Valentine, the cap is marked both eversharp and parker. I put a parker clip and nib to it and it very nice.

http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i113/hug...ne%20Eversharp/

Danny Fudge

Congratulations! You have a black-veined pearl that isn't seen all that often,whether it's a Parker,Eversharp
or a Valentine. Nice pen!

John

FWIW, On these pens, the "EVERSHARP" is usually inscribed vertically on the cap and ""KINGSWOOD"" is inscribed horizontally on the barrel. Yes the extra quotation marks are meant to convey that the quotation marks or also inscribed on the barrel. I have no information about Eversharp subbing out the manufacture of these pens to another company. The Kingswoods all seem to have a narrow range of plastics that seem to be characteristic to Kingswoods. The folded candy stripe (to coin a descriptive phrase) is also seen on a number of mid-to late Wahl-Eversharp Oxfords and even some Bantams. While Plastics alone can not define a pen maker, there was usually some dedication of the plastics selected by one manufacturer in that the manufacturer agreed to supply that plastic to that manufacturer somewhat exclusively. Of course when a pen company was "finished with" some plastics, the plastic manufacturer could easily have sold the plastic to another pen company. And then parts is parts and similar bright work, or end caps are available to anyone as findings are. The one thing that is confusing oin these pens is that the push rod flex-presser bar arrangement is very "Parker" old school. What is it doing here? I am not sure of the exact date range of these pens, but it is possible (even if the plastics I was describing above were similar to much earlier pens, that these pens were made in the mid '50's, when Parker was or had acquired Eversharp. That would explain why some say Eversharp and Kingswood and another reported here says Eversharp and Parker?

Syd

I'm not the expert on the subject, but from what I understand, pen manufacturing in the UK back in the '30s and '40s was very different from what it was in the USA. In particular, there was much more reliance on subcontracting, with even the top-line makers buying parts from outside firms (a few hoards of material have come to market in the UK that are quite telling, including trim bands and clips and nibs, all from the manufacturers and all made for use by a broad range of different "makers"). I've seen quite a few of the button-filling Eversharp "Kingswood" pens over the years; that one with both Parker and Eversharp imprints on the cap, however, is a new one on me. I would very much doubt that it dates as late as Parker's takeover of Eversharp: more likely, if the imprints are as described, it was a piece made by Valentine for Eversharp and for some reason not delivered, and later sent out the door as a Parker/Valentine. In any event, Steve Hull is your man on this topic. Who was making what from whom under what name is very complex indeed when it comes to UK pen manufacture.