Did Eversharp Make A Skyline With This Combination Of Parts?

[BamaPen]

I've been slowly restoring an Eversharp Skyline of the variety that has the gold-filled cap and gold-filled barrel. As I thought I was nearing completion, I discovered that someone in the past had put a demi-sized cap on a standard-sized barrel. That means that my standard-sized Skyline nib is too long to fit in the cap without tine damage. So, I found a standard-sized gold-filled cap and was just about to screw it onto the pen when I realized that the derby on this cap is not gold-filled, but rather is brown plastic - which happens to match the color of the section on this pen.

 

I will have to disassemble the cap to secure the shrunken inner cap, so it would be easy enough to swap the gold-filled derby from the demi-sized cap onto the full-sized cap - I have had plenty of Skyline caps apart before. But, the match of the derby color and the section color is so striking that I'm wondering if Eversharp ever made an official version of the all gold-filled pen but with the plastic derby.

 

I kinda doubt that this arrangement was ever official, but can anyone tell me for sure?

 

Plastic derby - gold-filled cap - gold-filled barrel

 

John Hubbarfd

[Ted F]

John,

 

I can't tell you for sure but I doubt that combination was used. It would look strange and I don't think the price difference at retail would be significant enough to justify it.

 

Ted

[corgicoupe]

I have both a regular and a demi with a gold filled barrel with a derby that matched the plastic barrel, but that only adds to the confusion for you. If it looks good, leave it as being unique.

[Addertooth]

The Skyline had almost as many variations as the Parker 51, this often leaves collectors to wonder if their combination historically matched what was sold. To make matters worse, some stationary shops were willing to customize pens to match the desires of a valued customer. As for the off-the-shelf standard, all of the samples of gold-bodied Skylines I have (5) all arrived with gold derbies. All 5 have black sections and "plugs" (the part pressed into the barrel which the section slides into). I have seen 2 examples of plugs which were "New Stripe or Moire" on all metal Skylines, but the bidding got ruthless on those samples. I suspect that with you getting a mis-matched cap, it is likely the previous owner also swapped the section. When it comes to Sections, black seemed to be the factory color for gold metal bodied Skylines. This answer is via observation, and should not be considered authoritative.

 

I suspect Wahl-Nut (Syd) could give the best answer for this question.

Edited February 19, 2020 by Addertooth

[jonveley]

The pencils are instructive, because the derbies are press fit in place and extremely difficult to remove. I know of no gold filled pencils that lacked gold filled derbies.