Vacumatic Standard 1St Generation Wet Noodle

[mitto]

Standard. Lockdown filler. Body color cap and blind cap tassies/jewels. Made in Canada. Datecode '8.'.

 

Writing sample:

 

 

Tip size looks to be a F or perhaps EF.

 

The pen came (restored) with a lot of 6 pens that I won for £53. The pens were

1) BCHR (single wider 9kt barrel band) Waterman 52

2) Waterman 12 eyedropper

3) NOS green striped open nibbed Waterman W5

4) This pen

5) Sheaffer Imperial-1

6) Sheaffer Fashion that came with unused slim squeeze converter.

 

Edited to add:

The Waterman 12 eyedropper was missing its cap. However, I used its flexy #2 nib in one of my BCHR (double vide 9kt barrel bands) Waterman 52s whose flexy nib's tipping had almost gone.

Edited September 14, 2018 by mitto

[Ron Z]

Nice find. Very flexible Vac nibs are rather uncommon.

[mitto]

A relatively better picture of the pen.

 

[JotterAddict62]

Very nice, very nice.

[pajaro]

Striped jewels. High class.

[inkstainedruth]

Wow! You scored big time didn't you?

I'm not a fan of that particular color Vac -- but I am fond of the look of Lockdown fillers more than the later Vacs. And that nib!

Nice batch of sumgais you got yourself there. That would have been a great price JUST for the Vac.... I'm totally jealous.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[entertainment]

But in my experience, there are a lot more flexible Vacumatic nibs from Canada.

[mitto]

But in my experience, there are a lot more flexible Vacumatic nibs from Canada.

I agree. I have another one from Canada that is BB (or perhaps BBB) Stub and at the same time very very flexible. Almost full flex.

[europen]

That looks to be a nice haul indeed. Kudos for coming across it and snapping it up.