Pretty little odd Japanese pen

[John]

OK so I'm Posty McPostit this morning but here's another recent acquisition. A no name Japanese crescent filler with a glass nib!

 

http://ca.geocities.com/jgilks@rogers.com/penpics/japglass.jpg

[kathywc]

cool! I wouldn't mind playing with that one one day!

 

kathy wc

[Keith with a capital K]

I believe that these pens were the type that Spors once imported into the U.S. and sold for something like $1.50.

 

They were a catalogue company and I do not know if anyone knows who exactly produced the pens themselves.

 

I hear that if the nibs are intact, they make really nice writers and were of course manufactured to resemble the Conklin Crescent fillers.

[Leslie J.]

That's a cool pen. I haven't seen one like it before. How does the nib write? I have a glass dip pen with a similar looking nib, but wonder how it would be with a "constant" supply of ink.

[John]

It writes like a smooth, stiff, metal nib. Which I guess isn't terribly surprising!