Large collection of pens with no nibs

[PaulLeMay]

I'm sure I am not the only one to notice, but one seller on eBay is selling very large lots of vintage fountain pens, all with no nibs. the seller is magic-cottage

Lots of really great pens there with very bad photos. I was outbid on a set, but it sure would be fun to get one of these boxes with 10 or 20 pens to work on!

[jicaino]

got some things from him. Bad pictures allow room for bad goods, fortunately not the case. I wonder what happened with those nibs? all stuff I have from him would be pre- WWII, and I notice that among the no nibs lot, I'd say that 90% are pre WWII, maybe the gold got donated????

[PaulLeMay]

If I had to guess I'd say a few years ago someone thought the gold was worth more than the pens. Around here that seems ridiculous.

[skipwilliams]

I'll guarantee you that the nibs were yanked out and sold in the early 80's when gold topped out. I know of lots of vintage pens that were trashed just to get the nibs out. I remember TV ads for guys who would set up in motel rooms and advertise to buy scrap gold when it was $3-400/oz.

 

There's a lot of good stuff in there....if you have nibs for them.

 

Skip

[Buzz J]

It's very tempting. I hope the prices move a bit higher so I won't get sucked in.

[Buzz J]

Well, I didn't get sucked in.

 

But now I've got to jerk out all my nibs to increase the value of my pens......