I recently purchased a lot of pens from a 65 year old woman who was selling her collection of fountain pens, most of which had been gifts from her family. I got excited when I saw a pink purse pen but after receiving it I discovered that it has some gouges around the lever end and a personal imprint on the barrel. Assuming that I resac this pen, polish it up and put it's 1551 nib back on what is it's approx value in the classifieds or on ebay?

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Assuming you can get most of the ink out of the threads,

If there are no lip cracks, around $30-45
If there are lip cracks, $20-30

Best regards, greg

For me assuming no lip cracks and that the ink staining is removeable and allowing for the personal engraving $30-35.

Somehow this question reminds me of a very blue joke involving a naive young pastor and a nun with a past. The punchline?

"$15 -Same as in town!"

And you guys made it even better!

The gouges are the killer (for me anyway). The imprint is well done and though a "clean" barrel would be better a serious collector of Esterbrook would buy this. I will go with a $30-$40 range.