You dont have to spend too much money to have fun with vintage fountain pens. Part II: The Ayer pen

[Hex]

First time I have seen this thread and it's eye opening.

2 terrific nibs coupled with a beautiful hand = jealously on my part.

I also love the narrative. :clap1:

[Uncle Red]

Wow, these are sweet pens. A copper crescent wow. And yes, your handwritting makes me want to pull out the books I just bought and practice.

[georges zaslavsky]

very nice thanks for sharing

[ethernautrix]

Well about three years later another Ayer pen crossed my path. I got it from ebay for the whooping price of 3-4 venti cappuccinos.

This was a crescent filler! A bright red plastic looks nice under the copper crescent.

The process of opening is now known as it was quickly clear that the section was similar to the previous one that I had.

With a lot of patience, heating, wiggling, re-heating, and re-wiggling the section is out. The sac is completely ossified. Note the surface of the sac (not smooth).

 

 

The copper filler slides easily out.

 

 

 

Quick resac (#17). I was a little conservative with the length of the sac as I dont like blobs.

 

 

 

My, my!... Another, totally sweet flex nib. Did I tell you how much I love this hobby?

 

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b325/azavalia/IMG_3059.jpg

 

Wow, that's a beauty -- and your handwriting, too, is beautiful.

[rhr2010]

I picked up myself one of these Ayer pens with crescent filler on eBay. Mine is in very rough shape. It is missing the end of the barrel, that somehow seems to screw out also in your photo, as I can see a joint past the crescent filler. Mine has a blue plastic piece to old the crescent. I wonder why they used bright colored plastic rings on hard rubber pens. I thought my cap was not original, but it is just like yours and therefore myust be the right cap. Crescent filler bar looks like the Conklin one, I wonder if they bought them from Conklin. A nice piece of American pen history.