Doric Desk Pen Questions

[Redleg05]

I always search the database first. I didn't where these questions were answered, but if I missed a link please post it. Although I've been collecting for about a year now I still feel like a clueless noob.

 

I'm now the proud owner of three Doric desk pens. One was found in the wild, the other two I bought off Ebay, gambling on some rather crappy photos (Side note: Don't you often wonder why people even bother to post some of the photos they do? Like the ever-popular "hand in focus, product fuzzy" or "insert blurry photo that might be a pen or an inflatable beach toy" or "Pen shot at all angles of the clock, but always with the same side up).

 

My questions:

 

1. One of them is green, and the furniture (am I using that term correctly?) is gold. The other two are a silver grey, and the furniture is silver. When I got the latter two, at first I assumed plating loss, but in looking at them through a loupe, it appears to me that these grey ones came with silver furniture originally. Were some of these colors supplied with silver instead of gold?

 

2. Were all the Doric colors (and I also mean both the earlier and the later series) available as desk pens, or if not, which ones were available in each series?

 

3. None of mine are Gold Seal. How many levels of Doric desk pens were available? Do they match the Junior, Standard, Oversize line logic?

 

I think I'm going to be that weird guy who searches out Doric desk pens. I think these are gorgeous and they feel really nice in my hand.

Edited April 14, 2016 by Redleg05

[Roger W.]

Desk pens usually do not come in the range that pocket pens did. Grey pens often have silver furniture and most all others gold. There is probably at most only two sizes of desk pen available. I don't know Wahl at all in desk pens but, Sheaffer offered more and in the desk line was limited to a small range of options and I've not seen there to be more options available for Wahl in the desk set line though I don't specifically look for it. Desk pen questions often go unanswered so I thought I'd give a perspective of someone that likes desk sets anyway.

 

Roger W.

[Redleg05]

Thanks for the response.

 

I would like to find other colors of these if they're available, but there doesn't seem to be much information out there on them. The only one I see in Ebay's sold listings is a gold seal. The ones I bought on Ebay weren't listed as Eversharp Dorics. As I said, I took a chance.

 

Maybe the lack of interest will help keeps the prices low.