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georges zaslavsky Museum Piece

georges zaslavsky

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some nice pens in there :)

Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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John Danza Vintage

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Well, I get to join the club with a recently aquired Diamond Medal pearl-and-black fluted button-filler. It would have been cooler had it been a vac.

 

Coming back to David's pens pictured above - what clues are there to the date on that pen, David? I find it interesting that I do not have that pattern in the catalog pages I have (which admitedly are limited - Fall 1935, Spring 1936, Fall 1936, Fall 1939), except for one Diamond Medal in the 1939 catalog - but the clip on that is clearly not Parker, and the Webster's by then had switched to the later 1940s Websters - identical to many Gold Medal pens and presumably not Parker-made.

 

I would guess that those striped DM vac-fills were from somewhere in the 1937-1938 range, but wonder if there are any other clues (date code on nib?)

 

John

 

(who really needs to find some time to get back to the library and slog through the microfilm. . .)

 

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/laridae/DM-fluted.jpg

 

Hi John,

 

Did you just get this off of Ebay? It looks like one that was there recently, that I was the underbidder on. It's a nice pen, and from my perspective, it's more important that it's not a Vac. The fact that it's a button filler in a format that's similar to the depression era/"Thrift Time" pens, in a depression era plastic, I think is pretty important. Most of the Diamond Medal pens you see that are clearly Parker manufacture are Vacs. I didn't know that Parker made button fillers for DM.

 

 

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Yup. Sorry to beat you out on that one, but, you know - all is fair in love and ebay ;)

 

Parker definitely made button-fillers for Sears, particularly the Wedbster button fillers, but also Diamond Medals. Looking back at the catalog page I posted early in this thread, which is the only mention of fluted DMs in my (limited) collection of Sears cat. pages, I note that it does not say "Vacuum-fil" or anything similar in the description. Of course, the fact it was a button-fill means I could resack it myself, without waiting to send it out.

 

Here is the DM page from Fall 1935 Sears catalog (at least the Seattle version). Note that DMs are offered in both "Vac-fil" pen and "Non-transparent Sac-fill" versions.

 

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/laridae/Sears-fall1935-p616.jpg

 

And a page of Webster and Good Service pens, next page in the catalog:

 

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/laridae/Sears-fall1935-p617.jpg

 

And here is the long-awaited "Web" vacuum-fil Diamond Medals:

 

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a150/laridae/Sears-fall1936-p690.jpg

 

John

So if you have a lot of ink,

You should get a Yink, I think.

 

- Dr Suess

 

Always looking for pens by Baird-North, Charles Ingersoll, and nibs marked "CHI"

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SMG Collectors Item

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As I recall, David has a very nice copy of the fluted Diamond Medal. I recall seeing it at his place once, which was interesting as I had recently restored it for its prior owner.

 

Cheers,

Sean

PenRx is no longer in business.

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As I recall, David has a very nice copy of the fluted Diamond Medal. I recall seeing it at his place once, which was interesting as I had recently restored it for its prior owner.

 

Cheers,

Sean

Button-filler then, or Vac?

 

John

So if you have a lot of ink,

You should get a Yink, I think.

 

- Dr Suess

 

Always looking for pens by Baird-North, Charles Ingersoll, and nibs marked "CHI"

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As I recall, David has a very nice copy of the fluted Diamond Medal. I recall seeing it at his place once, which was interesting as I had recently restored it for its prior owner.

 

Cheers,

Sean

Button-filler then, or Vac?

 

John

 

Button filler. I know cause he pried it away from me...

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SMG Collectors Item

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Chris, that is a really interesting pen. Is it a vac filler or button fill?

I will have to check out the image when I get home but that is a very unique piece.

Good grab on that one.

Cheers

Sean

PenRx is no longer in business.

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Good grab on that one.

 

+1 on that! Nice catch, Chris!

 

This is the kind of threads I wish we could see more of these days. I love this discussion of the different branches on the family tree for a certain pen, especially when it crosses brands like it does!

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csikora Rare

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Hi Sean,

 

Its a lock-down vac filler with amazing transparency. The nib is a regular 'ol Vacumatic arrow nib with a .9. date code. There are no imprints on the barrel. Could you restore this one for me?

 

Chris

 

Chris, that is a really interesting pen. Is it a vac filler or button fill?

I will have to check out the image when I get home but that is a very unique piece.

Good grab on that one.

Cheers

Sean

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