Waterman Man 100 Gold "specimen" C1988 Forward

[PenHero]

Hi, folks!

This is a pen that visited us in 2004. It's basically a fake gold plated version of the solid gold MAN 100 that dealers could use as demonstrators so wealthy customers could try out the pen and order the real pen and know that they would be getting an untouched new pen.

http://penhero.com/Temp/WatermanGoldMAN100_1280_01.jpg

The full 18 karat solid gold model is a heavily fluted Godron design, first offered in 1988, and also available in solid sterling silver and as a twist action ballpoint. All elements of the solid gold pen would be hallmarked, including the cap, section, barrel, end cap and clip. This pen is stamped "SPECIMEN" on the cap, barrel and section to make sure there is no doubt that this one is a facsimile gold plated demonstrator.

Thanks!

[Tobias from Switzerland]

 

Hi, folks!

This is a pen that visited us in 2004. It's basically a fake gold plated version of the solid gold MAN 100 that dealers could use as demonstrators so wealthy customers could try out the pen and order the real pen and know that they would be getting an untouched new pen.

http://penhero.com/Temp/WatermanGoldMAN100_1280_01.jpg

The full 18 karat solid gold model is a heavily fluted Godron design, first offered in 1988, and also available in solid sterling silver and as a twist action ballpoint. All elements of the solid gold pen would be hallmarked, including the cap, section, barrel, end cap and clip. This pen is stamped "SPECIMEN" on the cap, barrel and section to make sure there is no doubt that this one is a facsimile gold plated demonstrator.

Loaned for photos by Stan Klemanowicz.

Thanks!

 

yes indeed, a real beauty I do have one as well and a very special prototype the ball point as solid gold speciem ;-)

[RMN]

Interesting. Thanks for showing.

 

 

D.ick

[dboulonnais]

This Specimen is made in sterling silver with gold plating on called Vermeil in France

[mitto]

The Vermeil should be hallmarked as 'Sterling Silver GF' or something like that.

[dboulonnais]

The Vermeil should be hallmarked as 'Sterling Silver GF' or something like that.

No, you do have hallmark only

[PenHero]

The Vermeil should be hallmarked as 'Sterling Silver GF' or something like that.

 

The pen is hallmarked as if it was solid gold. It's intended to show the customer what the gold pen looks like. It's also stamped SPECIMEN on the cap and barrel to make sure it's not misrepresented as the solid gold pen.

[Chrissy]

 

The pen is hallmarked as if it was solid gold. It's intended to show the customer what the gold pen looks like. It's also stamped SPECIMEN on the cap and barrel to make sure it's not misrepresented as the solid gold pen.

 

I still like it very much.

[Left FPN]

Gold hallmarks on a non solid gold item ????

 

Is that legal.

 

Please Can someone put up pics of the hallmarks.

[wspohn]

I have this as well. Not set up for pen photography at the moment so can't post hallmarks - the marks are very small indeed and require a macro set up to capture, plus the strike isn't uniform or deep enough.

 

Beautiful pen that is very hard to find - took me two years to get one. Similarly, the Parker gold specimen pens are pretty hard to find - sadly made only in the smaller size, probably to keep the price of the real ones down by using less gold.

[Left FPN]

I think the main stamp should be an eagles head.

[dboulonnais]

On this pen, you have hallmark for silver sterling (crab hallmark) and one other for gold plating

[wspohn]

Jim's excellent article on these pens can be found at http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Waterman/WatermanSpecimen.htm

 

There was one sold on Ebay about two years ago - it went for $487, a steal!

 

I must get out my loupe and see what the hallmarks are - I thought that the hallmark for French sterling was Minerva's head, or for gold was an eagle's head for 18K, which is what the actual gold pens were.