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Can any furnish information about this apparent early Balance? It's in excellent condition, and I'm wondering especially about its value.

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Welcome home. Pull up a stump and set a spell.

 

Nice pen but nearly impossible to put a value on it without far more information. It's heavily discolored and no idea about the condition of nib, feed, sac, lever and so many other factors that go into setting a value.

 

 

 

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Appears to be a K5-30TC circa 1929.

 

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The set is is fine condition, and the revised photo may dispel the idea of discoloration (or not). There are no scratches, bites, nicks, and I've replaced the sac and have used the pen; it's a marvelously smooth writer. Nib is, indeed, marked 5-30; thank you, Daniel, for the lead, and I'll try to follow up. I'm preparing a display for the local library and want to furnish information wherever possible. Intrinsic value is not an issue; I'll not part with this.

 

Still a bit confused about the clip. This is definitely the long hump clip, and all the images I find show a shorter clip.

 

All the help is greatly appreciated. Thank, all!

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The set is is fine condition, and the revised photo may dispel the idea of discoloration (or not). There are no scratches, bites, nicks, and I've replaced the sac and have used the pen; it's a marvelously smooth writer. Nib is, indeed, marked 5-30; thank you, Daniel, for the lead, and I'll try to follow up. I'm preparing a display for the local library and want to furnish information wherever possible. Intrinsic value is not an issue; I'll not part with this.

 

Still a bit confused about the clip. This is definitely the long hump clip, and all the images I find show a shorter clip.

 

All the help is greatly appreciated. Thank, all!

 

All the amber toning is discoloration; these pens were originally a rather pure white pearl and black in color. I'm surprised you can't find any images of this clip style, as it was present on a large number of pens. Here's a Google image search that should turn up some pictures that match.

 

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"The greatest mental derangement is to believe things because we want them to be true, not because we observe that they are in effect." --Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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Purveyor of the iCroScope digital loupe

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