Unusual Conway Stewart Nib

[WhiteStarPens]

I picked up this burgundy C.S Executive #60 the other day and noticed a rather odd imprint to the nib.

 

It reads:

 

The

Conway Stewart

14k 585

 

I've yet to receive it in the post, so I'm unsure as to any other imprints.

All I can think of is perhaps it was a trial configuration in the transitional period between the #55 shaped pens and the streamlined 50's redesign.

 

Have a look chaps and chapettes, see what you think. Have any of you ever seen imprints like this?

 

Many thanks,

 

W.S.P

[PaulS]

I'm no wiser than you, but it might be worth commenting that information on the Jonathan Donahaye site is saying that Standard nibs for No. 60 Executive would have been either a Duro or Manifold, and these words would have formed part of the nib imprint.

The term .585 (re the gold content) was apparently required for export regulations when going into the States, so I'm told. This suggests your nib may be a replacement - nibs are the most commonly replaced part of a pen.

 

Always possible your nib is a modern replacement (post 1997) when the brand was re-issued, though this had nothing to be with the original factory manufacturing arrangements.

 

It's an impressive looking pen - expensive in its day - 1950s until the early 1960s, apparently.

 

P.S. the colourway looks to be burgundy hatch.

Edited June 10, 2019 by PaulS

[northlodge]

This suggests your nib may be a replacement - nibs are the most commonly replaced part of a pen.

 

Always possible your nib is a modern replacement (post 1997)

 

my immediate thought.

[peterg]

The Jonathan Donahaye site is 'dead'. The data is hosted by WES, but it is not being updated and there are no intentions of doing so in the future.

 

I was wondering if (other) Paul was going to the Special Meeting at Lichfield and would offer to curate your Summit site? It seems a wicked waste of resources to leave them dorment when so much new information is being discovered.

[northlodge]

The Jonathan Donahaye site is 'dead'. The data is hosted by WES, but it is not being updated and there are no intentions of doing so in the future.

 

I was wondering if (other) Paul was going to the Special Meeting at Lichfield and would offer to curate your Summit site? It seems a wicked waste of resources to leave them dorment when so much new information is being discovered.

 

I am hopeful of getting to Litchfield, but as WES long since dropped me off their mailing list I know nothing about a special meeting!

 

The Summit site is currently available through WES, and I would be happy for someone else to take on the effort of updating the content. I am also aware of a European based collector who is doing a good job of collating information on Summit models, (plenty of detail and far better photos than I manaed), so there is certainly lots of material to work on

 

 

....... and who would have thought that Summit supplied pens to the Boy Scout movement, it was not just Conway Stewart and their Empire Pens ;-)