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I just wanted to know how long the kashmir green colour was in production in the Equipoised series?

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Your question asks about production. From the evidence at hand we can tell when models began but not exactly when they ended. From what I have The Equi-poised pens that started that color were the round models with the "rhomboid" cap bands which came out in 1930. From what I can see the last catalog in which that color was shown was the 1932. "Production" certainly continued for a year or 2 after that so maybe as long as 1934. To make matters a little harder to discern, the Kashmir color carried on in other pen models after the Equi-poised and into a round model that has been thought by some to be the "round Doric" (pretty well discounted as not a correct classification by many)and by others a a possible 2 band Equi-poised or yet another model without a formal name. But from the literature in my possession, it looks like anything actually named Equi-poised was over by about 1934/5

 

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Thanks Syd! It does have rhomboid cap bands. I am struggling at whether to sell them or not. The colour concerns me, I have seen several of these pens where the plastic becomes transparent. At the present time this pen and pencil have almost perfect colour, not only that but they also have stickers. This pushes me a little more to sell them as I live to at least be able to use my pens, (the collection has grown at this point where I can't use everything). I have attempted to post a quick pic of the set.

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