Modern Retro Ebonite Eyedropper

[Lemon328i]

Presented for your amusement, as it has surely amused me......

 

A Rippled Ebonite Eyedropper possible made by Wality!

 

I stumbled upon a section of Ebay last week known as Ebay Stores while searching for Ebonite pens. There was one seller who listed a large capacity eyedropper made of ebonite. From the pictures on the web, it looked like a classic Duofold style flat top. Intrigued, I purchased it on a whim (price to be revealed later).

 

It arrived today with a little plastic eyedropper in a rather non-descript box. It has a characteristic odor of hard rubber. Examining the pen, it is very lightweight, about 5.25 inches long and is a dead on ringer for a vintage flat top.

 

Body/Cap

Brown and black twist rippled ebonite. The section is made of the same rippled ebonite and matches the body. The cap is as I mentioned earlier a flat-top similar to the design pioneered by the Parker Duofold. The clip is plain brass of stamped construction with a folded ball. There is a breather hole in the cap. The cap screws on smoothly and requires 7 complete rotations to remove. The section is also threaded (quite tightly actually) and required a bit of force and quite a lot of turns to remove.

 

Filler

This pen is an eyedropper with a capacity around 5mL of ink. Should last a long time in writing.

 

Nib/Feed

Feed is black ebonite and looks a lot like the old Omas ebonite feed. It is friction fit into the section with a generic gold-plated steel medium iridium point nib. The nib is smooth and lays down nice wet lines.

 

What more is there to say? Oh, yes the price. How about $30 shipped?

This pen seems to be a new Wality pen. The seller never explicitly told me that, but given the construction being identical to a Wality 69L I have, I strongly suspect it. It is possible that this is simply a handmade pen using Wality parts though. Still for the money, this pen is a top notch performer. With the vintage styling, ebonite feed and ED filler, I expect to be writing a long time!

Edited April 18, 2006 by Lemon328i

[Lemon328i]

Here is a writing sample.

[Slush99]

Wow, that's an interesting pen. 30 dollars? :bunny1: :bunny1:

[wimg]

Hi Lemon,

 

Thank you very much for an excellent review! A very nice pen indeed, and the price is right, too!

 

BTW, for those of us with narrower monitors, I resized your pictures a bit:

 

 

 

Warm regards, Wim

[LapsangS]

Great pen! It's so interesting to see this kind of pens are still made at an affordable price!