Vintage Pen Repair Tools, 2

[rhr]

Waterman's What's It?

 

Okay, here's a repair-tool jigsaw puzzle for you to put together. What repair tool would result from putting all these parts together, in the right order? The answer in a while...

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrpen/tools3b.jpg

 

George.

 

:ph34r:

[Elaine]

Inner cap puller?

[rhr]

Waterman's Clip Riveter

 

It's used to install Waterman's clips from the "100 Year Pen" era, the ones with the domed cap-top rivets with the globe emblem. And here's what it looks like when it's put together. It's a post anvil with a hexagonal tip that crimps and splits the rivet into six petals. It comes with a punch with a concave tip that matches the dome of the rivet without harming it. I'll show it later.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrpen/tools3a.jpg

 

George.

 

:ph34r:

[Elaine]

It's a good thing you posed the question with the picutre of the tool disassembled. Now that you show it all put together it's so obvious what it is!

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

Where did you get it?

 

Dillon

[rhr]

I found this tool and a few others in 1993 when I was researching old theaters in my city. Along the way I got to know an old jeweler who sold me some old unrepaired pens from his old business, including a Moss Agate Patrician. I was looking for a lathe, and he told me about the son of another jeweler who still had his father's lathe. The son sold me the lathe, and when he found out that I collected and repaired fountain pens, he mentioned that his father's jewelry shop was one block away from a pen repair shop that was called Speciality Repairs. I quickly went over to an archival library that deals with the history of my city (a library where I have now been working since 1994), and located the address of the shop. I found that he was in business from 1945 to 1965, and when I contacted the surviving son I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they had a box of his repair shop effects. As well as the repair tools, there were long pen boxes and envelopes full of mint repair parts (and I mean mint, straight from the various pen company repair part departments, some in little envelopes with the part numbers written on them), a cigar box full of little boxes with 200 gold nibs in them, a few hundred rubber sacs that are still good to this day, and the carcasses of many broken pens and pencils. It was my great fortune to be first to find this treasure trove, and they felt that the box had found a good home, so they let it go. I kept most of the boxes and envelopes of mint parts intact and have only very sparingly dipped into them. I took the photos in 1998, and they were just kicking around, so I thought I'd share them. I scanned the photos this year, and they're not the best quality images.

 

So, do you think that this qualifies me as a someguy, at least for that year?

 

George.

 

:ph34r:

[Dillo]

I found this tool and a few others in 1993 when I was researching old theaters in my city. Along the way I got to know an old jeweler who sold me some old unrepaired pens from his old business, including a Moss Agate Patrician. I was looking for a lathe, and he told me about the son of another jeweler who still had his father's lathe. The son sold me the lathe, and when he found out that I collected and repaired fountain pens, he mentioned that his father's jewelry shop was one block away from a pen repair shop that was called Speciality Repairs. I quickly went over to an archival library that deals with the history of my city (a library where I have now been working since 1994), and located the address of the shop. I found that he was in business from 1945 to 1965, and when I contacted the surviving son I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they had a box of his repair shop effects. As well as the repair tools, there were long pen boxes and envelopes full of mint repair parts (and I mean mint, straight from the various pen company repair part departments, some in little envelopes with the part numbers written on them), a cigar box full of little boxes with 200 gold nibs in them, a few hundred rubber sacs that are still good to this day, and the carcasses of many broken pens and pencils. It was my great fortune to be first to find this treasure trove, and they felt that the box had found a good home, so they let it go. I kept most of the boxes and envelopes of mint parts intact and have only very sparingly dipped into them. I took the photos in 1998, and they were just kicking around, so I thought I'd share them. I scanned the photos this year, and they're not the best quality images.

 

So, do you think that this qualifies me as a someguy, at least for that year?

 

George.

 

:ph34r:

Hi,

 

I guess you are qualified.

 

Dillon