Pen Holder Size - All Suggestions Gratefully Received

[Plusfoursmax]

Hi All,

I have been at this all evening and have only turned up confusion. Perhaps there is someone out there who has enough experience that they could help me!

 

I have a friend who has just retrieved a her fathers' ballpoint Cross desk set from her brother, who was meant to look after it, but he has lost the 'trumpets' (?) that the pens fit into and I (as her known pen fiend) has been roped in to assist.

I don't know the age of the set, but that they are ballpoints does narrow it slightly, and I saw on a discussion forum that the size of the hole the trumpets fit into changed. The holes in this look to be about 10mm diameter.

Do you know if there are sources of modern trumpets that would fit the holes and take the ballpoints?

 

Many thanks for reading this far,

Max

 

PS I tried to attach a pic, but it appears I'm not allowed. I have instead uploaded to Imgur:

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[ac12]

The pens look like the original Century ball pens, from the 1970s +/-.

On a really slim chance, you could contact Cross and see if they might have the holder in old spare parts.

 

Alternative is to look for Cross desk sets to scavange the trumpets from.

[LWW]

E-BAY