Waterman #22 Taper Cap

[ImpulseTradingCo]

Friends,

 

A couple of days ago, I picked up a Waterman #22 Taper Cap. This is an odd pen: there is a red dot drilled into the taper and a flat spot milled into the section. The nib is embossed with a star, with Watermans above, and Ideal NY below and the numeral 2 below that, and it is missing one of the iridium tips. The section is stuck in the barrel. The previous owner figured out that the nib and feed can be easily removed.

 

I'm wondering what this is: a display pen? Factory defect? Or just an ordinary one with a broken nib and frozen section threads? Thanks for any ideas.

 

~Richard

[kirchh]

The red dot is the cap vent hole, filled with red wax, as they came from the factory; the flat spot is standard.

 

--Daniel

[ImpulseTradingCo]

Thanks very much Daniel. That reduces the issues with this pen to the missing tip and the frozen section. Here are a couple of poor pictures of the nib and feed. Do they look like original equipment? Would this be an early Waterman patent feed? On the back side of the feed it says Pat'd May 23 99 ~ August4, 1903.

 

~Richard

Edited October 27, 2013 by ImpulseTradingCo