PICS. A very odd Waterman #7. 1920's

June 5, 2006

Waterman intro'd the Ripple pattern of HR to its line during the early 1920's. Along with the mottled pattern we call Woodgrain, with Cardinal (red) and with Black (both smooth and chased), lots of HR pens were manufactured during that decade.

The lever filling series (numbered 5x, or fifty-something, with the final digit determined by the nib size) is most commonly represented by the model 52, with a #2 nib.

Anyhoo. Perhaps the two most common trim forms of the Red, the Woodgrain and the Ripple (excluding the #7 which is- perhaps- found only with cap-band) pens are those with goldfill caplip band and goldfill clip/lever, which- in 52 size- would be catalog model 01852 (the 018 indicating the cap-lip band and with the goldfill trim going along with that), and the 52 proper, with a bandless cap-lip featuring a thin notch in the Rubber near the cap-lipa.

Later in the 1920's Waterman intro'd the model #7. The number 7 was derived from the model 55 (a bigger version of the 52 featuring a #5 nib). It packed a goldfill caplip band and goldfill trim. The top of the cap had an inset color band which reflected the same color name marked on the nib. The colors indicated different nib tip styles.

Thanks for peeking.

david

Edited August 13, 2009 by inkdesigner