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Repairs To A 9Ct Gold Overlay

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I know that this has cropped up before as I've found a couple of old threads, but none that help me. I've got this vintage Onoto with a 9ct solid gold overlay, and in the main it's in really good condition, but, unfortunately, the gold near to the end of the section is coming away, I imagine corrosive inks have played some small part in this, but could be wrong.

 

I've tried local jewellers / goldsmiths, but no joy. Googled but found nothing. I even contacted Onoto thinking that they could point me in the direction of whoever did the overlays to their recent Magnas, but after quite a long delay they only forwarded my email on to Steve Hull who couldn't help.

 

Does anyone know of anyone in the UK or even Mainland Europe who does this work nowadays as it would be great to get this restored? I think that failing that then it might be a case of removing the damaged overlay, or finding a replacement section without an overlay, but even this might be difficult because of the size of the pen.

 

I originally posted this in the UK forum wondering whether anyone knew what model it was, but again with no joy.

 

Any help would be most gratefully received.

 

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