Hello FPNr's! I've been trying to figure out what this pen is but am having little success:











The nib says Oxford, but nowhere else is that denoted. The markings on the pen show:

MADE IN U.S.A.
BY THE MAKERS OF
EVERSHARP
PATENT 1.596.811

Thanks in advance for you help!

Chainwhip,

Oxford was the budget version pen from Wahl-Eversharp. Having said that they are still very nice pens.

Found more - go here :- http://www.rickconner.net/penoply/we.03.html

Gary

But Gary - have you ever seen an Oxford that didn't have an Oxford clip? Did Wahl make an Oxford that was not designated Oxford somewhere? Sure, this one has an Oxford nib, but nibs can be switched easily. The clip looks more like the clip on a Doric, but it doesn't have the 12-sided design of the Doric. It doesn't look like a Pacemaker or an AirLite. It doesn't look like the clip design in either of the Oxfords I have, nor the one in Rick Conners website, nor any other pictures I have found online.

The only pen I have found similar to this one is a pencil on David Nishimura's website - see item 4329 here -Wahl-Eversharp Pencil. He does not designate it as anything other than an Eversharp pencil.

So is it an Oxford? Or something else?

John

This one?

John,

You may well be correct, probably are in fact. The Oxford range was to reduce manufacturing costs and it may be they scavenged parts, clips, sections, celluliod etc from stock and made some official frankenpens outside of their common offerings. Note it has chrome trim of sorts not gold.

I'm not saying I'm correct, it may be a rarity. Obviously further research is needed.

I shall follow this thread as I'm intrigued now.

Best

Gary

I don't think Wahl-Eversharp worried too much about consistency of marking when it came to their Wahl-Oxford pens. Some companies' subbrands bore no indication of their parentage, but Wahl-Oxfords were always openly marketed as Wahl-Eversharp products. In a way, they were more of an economy line rather than what we normally consider a subbrand.

In any event, the pen in question is a twist + breather tube filler -- sort of like a Vacumatic or Ink-Vue with a different pump system atop the reservoir area. Conklin made these as well, and they are a bit of a pain to repair.

Thanks for the reply David.

I was originally going to pack this off to someone to repair (after I traded for it with Chainwhip), but I started to poke around with it myself. The section unscrewed easily with some heat, and after taking a look at the diagram on patent 1596811 (which looks a lot more like the vacumatic than this pen - but it's the patent on the imprint), I was able to unscrew the twist assembly from the rear.
Most of the sac is out now, but that leads to the next questions:

- how is the sac attached to that little assembly in the middle? Do you attach the sac inside the barrel (which would be a pain) or does that little ring assembly in the middle come out (I see it has two little notches on the section end)?

- how does the twist nob attach to the sac - is it just shellaced at the end?

I'll try to post pics for everyone else to see the parts.

John