Will The Green Converter Advertised On Amazon As Being For The Townsend Fit The Cross Century Classic?

[teryg93]

I recently unearthed a Cross fountain pen I was given sometime in the 70s or 80s. Looking on google images, it seems to be a Cross Century Classic. I have the box, booklet, everything except the converter--and I prefer using ink to using cartridges. Amazon has a green converter advertised as being for the Cross Townsend. I know the converter that came with the pen was green. Does anyone know if a converter designed for the Townsend is likely to fit the Century Classic?

[RMN]

I think you need the green one (although I believe they now have other colours It's the one WITHOUT threading.)

 

I think the green one will eventually fit aal Cross pens, but the amber-threaded one fits only certain models.

 

 

 

D.ick

[Chrissy]

I looked for previous threads to try to find out, and it says the green converter only fits the Townsend.

 

See this thread

[Jerome Tarshis]

The green push-fit converter fits the pen in question. I own half a dozen of those pens, and those converters fit.

 

Among Cross pens currently being manufactured, it may be that the Townsend is the only one that takes that converter. But many, many older Cross pens take the push-fit converter. Newer models, perhaps beginning with the Century II, take the orange screw-on converter.

 

Incidentally, the very newest Cross push-fit converters are made of transparent plastic, not the green or blue plastic of former times. Those transparent converters, too, will fit the 1980s Century.

[teryg93]

Thanks, everyone. I found one on ebay for less than Amazon wants, so ordered it.