Are The Little Square Marks On A 'gold' Waterman Cf Cap, Rolled Gold Or Plated?

[Bo Bo Olson]

I ended up with a live auction...odd... lot. , were a Waterman C-F BP &MP and there was a C-F FP cap, also. I can not even under 10 X read what the little square box stamped cap 'band'.

On the BP &FP cap there are two like tapped in 'bar' marks next to the square.

 

Is the little box a rolled gold? Or a gold plated mark?

I put this here in 64 folks looked at the post in the Waterman subsection and none knew to answer.

Edited June 21, 2016 by Bo Bo Olson

[Ian the Jock]

Bobo

I believe it's plate.

I have a silver guilloche Laureat with the same marks, and I've been told it's plate.

 

It's a factory mark that is used on plated pens.

Sterling silver or rolled/solid gold pens carry an additional precious metal hallmark alongside it.

 

Ian

[Bo Bo Olson]

Thanks Ian.

 

By the way, a couple of decades ago, I was driving in Scotland on a two week vacation (one of two), and out side an half an hour or so, didn't have any real rain. The folks all apologized about all the rain they were having.....and looked at us strange when we said we didn't have any rain....the look became real strange, we said we'd been there for a week or the last ten days.

It must have rained cats and dogs everywhere we were not.

 

Even got two Highland games with out rain, Edinburgh Tattoo too, was with out rain.....even Murphy sleeps. Thought that could have been the second trip.

 

Second time it didn't rain much either, just enough to have some mist coming coming over the mountains.