Antique Stores This Weekend

[Larry Barrieau]

I got a few Esterbrooks. I got a black J (skunk) 2668 $10, a black SJ 9550 $12 and both were in very good condition and write well. Then I got these two. A dipless Esterbrook with a deco style 407 working inkwell (new gasket) $20. And this blue Esterbrook. I don't know the model, Maybe a 100x?

 

I'm showing these two pens because of the nice surprise. Their nibs.

[Bill Wood]

that 7968 looks like a medium-broad. it's in real good shape. The 9128 looks servicable after a good cleaning. But that 7968 is immaculate. It was a good hunting day.

[Larry Barrieau]

Yes Bill, the 9128 has ink on it because I cleaned it and put it in my Blue Dollar pen and it writes beautifully.

[inkstainedruth]

Nice finds. Around Western PA, prices for Esties in the wild run somewhat higher, for the most part.

I was down in Fairmont WV yesterday, and spotted a couple of J's in the wild for $25 each. They had 9xxx nibs on them, but I left them because they were nibs I already had. (Ironically, the same booth had a 51 Vac, a couple of Sheaffers, a Mabie Todd Swallow (sadly with a cracked cap), and some third tiers -- all for the same $25 per pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jdllizard]

Nice finds. Around Western PA, prices for Esties in the wild run somewhat higher, for the most part.

I was down in Fairmont WV yesterday, and spotted a couple of J's in the wild for $25 each. They had 9xxx nibs on them, but I left them because they were nibs I already had. (Ironically, the same booth had a 51 Vac, a couple of Sheaffers, a Mabie Todd Swallow (sadly with a cracked cap), and some third tiers -- all for the same $25 per pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

You walked away from a $25 Parker 51? I wouldn't have had the willpower to resit.

 

 

And as for the OP, Nice score on those nibs! That 7968 is a very nice surprise! Congrats.

[gweimer1]

Nice score! Flea market season has started here again. Nothing so far, but the guy that usually has them is back. I did find a decent Parker 51 demi vacumatic at an antiques mall for $6.50.

[Larry Barrieau]

Does anyone know the model of the blue pen? I was looking in Paul Hoban's book and found one that looks like it but it was a felt tip pen.

[gweimer1]

The blue one looks like a CX-100 cartridge fill. I'll need to post my family pics again. I picked up a set of Esterbrook Rogue felt tip pens. Most of them still write.

 

http://www.esterbrook.net/cx100.shtml

 

http://www.esterbrook.net/images/cx100blue.jpg

Edited April 2, 2016 by gweimer1

[inkstainedruth]

You walked away from a $25 Parker 51? I wouldn't have had the willpower to resit.

 

Nope -- that was the one pen I *did* buy. I thought real hard about some of the others but decided against them for various reasons. The Mabie Todd was the hardest one to put back on the tray, but I was just too unhappy about the crack in the cap -- its was pretty severe. It was a tough call, though -- I'd never actually seen one in the wild. I might have gone for one or both of the Esties if they hadn't had nibs I've already got.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bitzel]

Nice finds. Around Western PA, prices for Esties in the wild run somewhat higher, for the most part.

I was down in Fairmont WV yesterday, and spotted a couple of J's in the wild for $25 each. They had 9xxx nibs on them, but I left them because they were nibs I already had. (Ironically, the same booth had a 51 Vac, a couple of Sheaffers, a Mabie Todd Swallow (sadly with a cracked cap), and some third tiers -- all for the same $25 per pen....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I found three Js in pretty rough condition at a local junk shop; the owner of the shop wanted $50 a pen for them. One of them didn't even have a cap, for crying out loud!

[jdllizard]

I found three Js in pretty rough condition at a local junk shop; the owner of the shop wanted $50 a pen for them. One of them didn't even have a cap, for crying out loud!

 

That's typical of every fountain pen I've ever found in an antique store. All trashed almost beyond repair, but the seller is asking for mint-in-box prices for them anyway.

[Tom Heath]

Sometimes you will want to pick up those broken pens for future parts or trading fodder

 

They should be reasonably priced even with a cracked cap you have the Cap Clip

The good barrel including lever ox, pressure bar, section, feed and hopefully a nice juicy 14 K Gold Nib

 

just things to consider.

[gweimer1]

^^What he said. I got a Parker 51 cap last year for a dollar, and it came in handy later. I went to my flea market again today. Apparently, the guy is getting to know me - "Are you my pen guy? I have something in the front seat of my truck for you" So, today's stuff, for a total cost of $7 was:

3- K&E drafting ink pens

A really beat Esterbrook Flo-Master

A German(?) piston fill with a Bock nib (still researching, with no marks on it, it may be a 1930's student pen)

Some Eversharp pencil lead

An unknown, unused ink cartridge that I've never seen before (again, no markings)

...oh, and a Pen-N-Pencil Co. combination pencil and postage scale.

 

I may be buying a restored 19th century Bible from him next week. We got to talking, and asked me what I knew about another pen he had in his truck that wasn't yet for sale. It turns out to be an Omas Diva ballpoint, which I'll let him know next week.

Edited April 17, 2016 by gweimer1