What Is The Filing Lever On Gold Skylines Made Of?

[miket_nyc]

I have a Skyline pen and pencil set with 14k gold caps. (I rescued them about 5 years ago from someone who'd been storing them in a safe-deposit box and was going to scrap them for the gold).

 

This pen has a nice, slightly flexible nib, and I like the way writes, but it's so valuable I don't dare to use it (at least not outside my house). So I was thinking of buying a beat-up cap to put on the pen, so if I lost it, I wouldn't lose the part the collectors want.

 

But is the filling lever on a gold Skyline also made of solid gold, or is it just plated like regular pens? The caps on the pen and pencil both say "14 KARAT GOLD," and the lever looks like gold, but it's too small to have anything written on it. If the lever is gold, I'd have to buy an entire beat-up body and just use the section from this pen (which fortunately comes out fairly easily).

 

Mike Taglieri

[FredRydr]

I don't know, but pending someone posting the answer, I'd hazard a guess that if levers were solid gold, they'd always be bending.

 

Fred

[KBeezie]

I doubt that the lever would be made of solid gold but rather plated or filled much like the clip and gold overlay of the cap would be. Unless of course you managed to get a skyline that had a gold body too (command performance model) which was solid gold.

 

If it's just gold filled caps like I have here:

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/eversharp/skyline/brown_goldfilled/goldfilled_pair.jpg

 

It's going to be gold plated. which will eventually wear/brass just like the clip.