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These things NEVER happen to me

 

Until this past week-end, I said the same thing.

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I went out to the Rogers Community Auction in Ohio a while back. It's absolutely huge -- part flea market, part yard sale, part farm market (literally everything from antiques and collectibles to smartphone cases to gun sales to live chickens). A few of the booths had pens -- mostly Wearevers, an overpriced Estie pen and pencil set, and a $5 Parker 45 with a huge crack in the barrel.

I wanna go to the flea market you go to....

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Me, too. I suspect that New York City has been picked clean. I tried antique shops in Missouri and Emmitsburg, MD. MIssouri had a beautiful WASP...cap and barrel. I explained what "WASP" meant, and another customer wanted me to buy an old pen, sight unseen, with "tiger stripes". Might have been a Vacumatic, but (1) without seeing it? and (2) I have have superb "azure" Vacumatic from Dr. David I with nib from our beloved Tom Mullane tuned by Greg Minuskin.

 

In Maryland, I saw a case of $60 Wearever pens. I guess, people think that if it's old it's worth a lot. Have seen the same thing on EBay lately. Overpriced Skylines and Esties and Wearevers and No-Names. Hit an old pen with a buffer and bingo!

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Interesting - I just pulled an identical pencil out of a box in my office. I didn't realize these things were plated. If it's a set it explains the two rings on the pen.

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The vendor sure doesn't know his stuff. He didn't even consider the gold content.

 

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