Waterman Has Me Stumped - Taperite? Skywriter?

[gweimer1]

I picked this up a while back - one of those vague "Waterman pen" listings. It's really a neat little pen, and writes nicely. All in all, a cute little purse/vest pen. My question is - what is it? I've been digging around for a couple hours and can't pin it down.

It has most of the attributes of a Taperite (Crusader?), but the nib/feed are more like a Skywriter. Of course, the barrel is no help - it just has "Watermans, Made in the USA". It's the feed that really has me curious, and my initial research found other pens with the same feed.

Could it be a hodge podge of Watermans parts?

 

 

[pajaro]

Apart from the nib it looks like a Crusader. I have the Taperite kind with gold trim. I paid some low price for it, and it is a surprisingly great pen. I think I have read that the Crusaders came in different nib versions.

[gweimer1]

I was thinking something along the same lines. I did a little more digging, and found an ad in the Cornell Daily Sun from the late '40s that shows the front view of the nib and feed. They match, so I'm thinking this is a Crusader with an Inkquaduct feed.

[birchtine]

I have seen this feed mainly on American Waterman's pens from the late 40s and early 50s, including piston and cartridge fillers sold in Europe.