Skyline Dart Pattern

[Ted F]

I picked up this Skyline at the Dallas Pen Show last month. It's the first Dart pattern on the cap that I've seen in person. The body is black. Danny Fudge of The Write Pen whipped it into shape.

 

[PAKMAN]

Beautiful! Great find!

[Greenie]

It is an uncommon Skyline pattern. Usually I see it in a completely gold filled body and cap. Great find! Enjoy.

[Buzz J]

Very nice. The Rev does good work!

JJ

[KBeezie]

Reminds me slightly of the check/unique pattern from the early Wahls.

[Wahlnut]

My simplest and as usual my first reaction is to lean toward expanding on a comment above alluding to being reminded of all metal skyline cap. It would not be too difficult to put a black derby on an all metal cap and put that on a black barrell to come up with the captioned pen. Many metal pens gold filled got dented, tarnished,worn and so replacing bad parts with plastic pen parts might have been expedient. I rather doubt it might be another uncatalogued model. But you never know for sure. Sure is pretty though. If they didnt, They shoulda made one

[Ted F]

Thank you for the info Syd. I knew it was special when I bought it. One of a kind. It doesn't get any better than that.

[Estragon]

To add further support to the idea that this was another bona fide model, here's a matching set in Dubonnet Red I sold a couple years back:

 

 

[Ted F]

That's interesting because I believe it is very difficult to remove the body of the pencil from the metal top, whereas swapping the pen parts is very easy.

[Greenie]

I have Dart Pattern pens in full gold filled as well as the plastic barrel with matching derby. I feel like I see more of this pattern in full gold filled pens. But there are plenty of versions like the one in this thread. The pen and pencil set posted by Estragon pretty much proves that this is a factory model.