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pajaro Museum Piece

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Too easy to see. As I recall, removing these little advertising squares leaves a mar on the clip. Still, if it were one for half the price, I might bite. I have the fountain pen in that amber marine finish.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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Cryptos Antique

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I was rather taken the notion that you could sand off the brown part of the ripple and just leave the red bit. As Jethro would say, "I'd like to have seen that".

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$399

 

It's only an asking price but it is the highest I have seen for a Phili.

I'm also amused at the "used but is out of ink." Disappointing - at that price I would expect it to be full of ink!

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RMN Museum Piece

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Sort the wheat out from the chaff on this one.

 

Original....my foot.

 

Wow, that's a very unusual pen. A Black manifold nib. Wow.

 

 

Probably all the parts are originally from Waterman pens. But they haven't left the premises together....

 

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pajaro Museum Piece

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To a collector the parts might be worth it. Personally, I don't know S#$% from shinola about those pens. Nice looking, but I'm not made of money to get into those. Interesting frankenpen, though. I suppose one could make frankenpens one's specialty. Good start in that case. :)

 

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"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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praxim Donor Pen

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That box lid looks like it has been sitting beside a sunny window for a while. Is that what makes it vintage?

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Left FPN Donor Pen

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That box lid looks like it has been sitting beside a sunny window for a while. Is that what makes it vintage?

The early Edson boxes have a rubberised coating which, over time, perishes. It is part of the pens patina :unsure:

 

Here is one of mine,

 

 

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The early Edson boxes have a rubberised coating which, over time, perishes. It is part of the pens patina :unsure:

 

Here is one of mine,

 

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That is an interesting observation. Usually when I confronted material degradation over time in pens and containers, I would curse the darkness, so to speak, and try to fix it. It does make more sense to regard this as the patina of a pen or pen box that is aging more or less gracefully. As with furniture, where the finish ages and the little scratches and knocks add up to a beautiful distressed finish. The marks of age might be the glory of its lifetime.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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pajaro Museum Piece

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I had to double take...I thought it said $1000.....$10,000 :yikes:

 

I suspect everything in Miami is expensive.

That's more like a guffaw.

"Don't hurry, don't worry. It's better to be late at the Golden Gate than to arrive in Hell on time."
--Sign in a bar and grill, Ormond Beach, Florida, 1960.

 

 

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I had to double take...I thought it said $1000.....$10,000 :yikes:

 

I suspect everything in Miami is expensive.

 

Not even sure NOS mint could touch half that price.

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PenBuyer1796 Rare

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They have managed to drop a zero now.

 

I think they forget to put a 5 in the front, and drop another zero. Then it might get bought in a reasonable amount of time. Too badly faded to command what they are asking.

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