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Hi, Folks!

This is a Waterman Lady Patricia Ink-Vue Black Lace c1936. In the Christmas, 1936 Pen Prophet, Waterman announced the Lady Patricia Ink-Vue as a new model, selling for $5.00 with matching pencils for $3.00. They were initially offered in Mist (grey), Sunset (red pearl) and Black Lace, each having a diamond pattern ink-vue barrel. The diamond motif continued with the gold filled clip, cap band, and lever. The flat cap top is a gold filled disc that attaches the clip. The Ink-Vue lever is a reverse split lever that pumps a short sac in the back of the barrel to fill the pen. These pens are 4 1/4 inches long. Nibs are 14 karat gold Number 2 size.
Anyone able to fill in the other colors?
http://penhero.com/Temp/LadyPatriciaBlack_1280_01.jpg
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Jim Mamoulides
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A beauty. But I don't quite understand the lever action.

 

 

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Ink view filler works like a kind of vacuum filler..like Parker Vacumatic... ;)

 

Hum ... Not really : I would say it's like a bulb-filler, with a lever box.

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I have the exact same pen. I discovered it in a lot of 9 pens that were in terrible condition. After clean up, I realized it was a beautiful Waterman's in Black Lace. Unfortunately, it was broken at the barrel. So, I sent it to Fountainbel for repair. It is on its way back now, I cannot wait!

 

Here is a catalogue pic if you care (I find them online and place in my pens database). This one is from a larger catalogue published in 1936:

 

fpn_1501869434__1936_lady_pat.png

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Interesting, I don't know that I've seen Black Lace with gold-plated trim before. More common seems to be the NPT model from siamackz' catalogue pic.

 

To complete the color spectrum, here's a shot of my two Lady Pat Ink-Vues: one Mist, the other Sunset. Displayed next to a watch from roughly the same period (1932), which I've carried for the past 15 years or so:

 

http://i.imgur.com/NkijpbB.jpg

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Interesting, I don't know that I've seen Black Lace with gold-plated trim before. More common seems to be the NPT model from siamackz' catalogue pic.

 

To complete the color spectrum, here's a shot of my two Lady Pat Ink-Vues: one Mist, the other Sunset. Displayed next to a watch from roughly the same period (1932), which I've carried for the past 15 years or so:

 

http://i.imgur.com/NkijpbB.jpg

Beautiful colours!

 

Interestingly, my black lace is gold plated too!

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I just found one in Mist. Needs an overhaul. But I love it already. And I really appreciate being able to search this forum to find the background info on just about any pen in existence!!

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I have one in Mist, and I sold one in Sunset Deluxe to someone here on FPN. The Sunset Deluxe is the red pen, with gold hardware.

 

I can restore these pens, too. They aren't as difficult, for me, as they say it should be. I've restored three now without any issues.

 

The filler is a more complicated variation of an eyedropper. The sac is up inside the end of the barrel, behind the visible ink reservoir. The lever folds out, and you squeeze down towards the barrel to compress the sac and fill the pen.

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The filler is a more complicated variation of an eyedropper.

 

 

Not much to do with an eyedropper ... :wacko:

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Not much to do with an eyedropper ... :wacko:

 

Haps he meant to write 'bulb filler'?

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Not much to do with an eyedropper ... :wacko:

 

 

 

Haps he meant to write 'bulb filler'?

 

Indeed, a bulb filler can be the "pipette", but also the pen filled by such an instrument.... also called eyedropper...

Interesting confusion.

 

 

 

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Haps he meant to write 'bulb filler'?

 

Yeah, probably the correct term. Squeeze the bulb at the top to fill the pen.

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I don't know that I've seen Black Lace with gold-plated trim before.

 

http://i.imgur.com/NkijpbB.jpg

Apparently the gold plated version is the 'De Luxe' version, as per Richard Binders website

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Apparently the gold plated version is the 'De Luxe' version, as per Richard Binders website

 

Aha – good to know!

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These (the ink vue models) are so hard to find clean- the trim is almost always brassed due to all the high points, particularly on the band.

I recently found a barely-used example. It also happens to have very nice clarity.

 

http://www.gergyor.com/images/waterman_lady-patricia_inkvue_jet-lace_darn-clean2.jpg

 

Best Regards, greg

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Beautiful! That transparency is really stunning. I've been searching for one in black lace for some time. Finding one with trim that hasn't been completely trashed has proved difficult indeed.

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