Sometimes, You Just Have To Laugh.

[mallymal1]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1950s-CONWAY-STEWART-NO-58-WORKING-PEN-CS-14CT-NIB/273797269064?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

 

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[Cob]

I know zero about Conway Stewarts - what have I missed? I know that 58s are pricey and that's it.

 

Cob

[johnmc2]

The barrel is a 58, it has a 55 cap and the nib doesn't look right - too small to be a 58 or DURO nib? The clip isn't CS.

[Wardok]

58 pen, 55 cap, not all of his pens are entirely original.

[eachan]

By no means the first unanounced Frankenpen by this seller. I'm sure inexperienced pen buyers get caught out by this nonsense.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, it depends on what the price ends up being. I got a couple of Parker 51s for cheap a few years ago at an antiques mall because both pens had the wrong caps on them -- the late MkII Burgundy Aero was labeled as a Frontier (well, it was the cap for a Frontier, anyway; and the Cedar Blue 51 Vac had some third tier cap on it (IIRC, the clip said American) and no price tag -- so the guy who opened the case for me priced it in between the Epenco with a badly discolored barrel and some Wearever that was $8 US.

Sometimes it is a case of buyer beware. But sometimes it's a case of "seller doesn't know what he has...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[northlodge]

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Sometimes it is a case of buyer beware. But sometimes it's a case of "seller doesn't know what he has...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Oh, I think this one knows exactly what he has, given they formed a pen collection.

 

perhaps he just cannot be bothered to put them back together correctly after dismantling the collection to fit new inksacs ;-)

 

The problem here is that he never declares the issues that exist, and when someone as experienced as Cob cannot spot the problem, then what chance has the inexperienced buyer.

 

The seller has too long a track record for me to consider purchasing anything off him.