Waterman's W2

[mkeeley]

Lost in Space was good.

[missuslovett]

Talking of nibs as we were, I've just got terribly excited to find an Eversharp Gold Seal Flexible nib. I'm currently repairing the pen it's attached to but I can't wait to try it out. Just like the time I bought my first flexible Waterman! I'm horrified at how expensive these nibs are and in these 'junk' savvy days it's so rare to grab a bargain! I hope you find lots more yourself.

[mkeeley]

Sounds good, nice looking pens especially like the blue variant.

 

Watching 24 pens with quite a few ending over the weekend. There's only one I really fancy despite being rather knackered, the others I won't be bidding much on, see if I can pick up any bargains.

[missuslovett]

Good luck with your bidding. I can only occasionally justify really splashing out on something nice so I'm often rummaging in the bargain bin. Problem is, everyone else is rummaging too!

[mkeeley]

Thanks. There does seem to be plenty of competition but nothing lost trying to win a bargain.

 

Had decided to bid a max of £25 inc postage but that sightly went out of the window. I just won a Swan with a number 6 semi-flex stub. Seems like a decent price but a tad or two more than £25! I'm sure Cob knows the years the 4660's were made, can't find it.

 

Also won a Sterling silver Todd, the hallmark's for 1915, which I paid more than I really wanted to considering how dead it is but will hopefully be a good project.

Edited August 22, 2015 by mkeeley

[birchtine]

Oh, you're lucky!!! I have the 1060 with the semi-flex 4 and it's a dream to write with.

[mkeeley]

The 4660 looks like it just needs a bit of a polish, the silver Todd needs slightly more work though...

[birchtine]

Your Swan was made around 1950

 

http://goodwriterspens.com/2012/06/03/mabie-todd-swan-leverless-4461/

[mkeeley]

Your Swan was made around 1950

 

http://goodwriterspens.com/2012/06/03/mabie-todd-swan-leverless-4461/

 

Thanks! Someone on here was bound to know. Had plenty of stubs but never with flex too so will be interesting to see what it's like.

[birchtine]

Flexible stub with well adjusted ink flow is the best of two worlds. Actually, most of my British Mabie Todd pens have either stubbish, oblique or just fine nibs, almost always with some degree of flexibility. I am not sure if I'm right, but I think that stubs/obliques were simply considered to be medium or broad nibs. With time they were replaced with more rigid bigger but rounded points. I have similar experience with the 1930s Waterman's. However, stubs can be found more easily on much later Mabie Todd than Waterman's pens.

 

I can't say much about the silver pen. I can only guess that it's from the late 20s or early 30s.

[missuslovett]

That stub looks nice. All my Swans are 1s and 2s, so I'm keen to branch out. As I said before, all of my Swans flex to a greater or lesser extent but I probably just haven't found a nail yet... *

 

 

**** Forgot about the Blackbird that I sold on. You could engrave with that bloody thing!

[mkeeley]

You hear the same about broad Montblancs, that they're fairly stub like.

 

The hallmark on the silver pen is Birmingnham 1915 (date letter "y") and it has a number 2 nib, don't know anything else about it other than that and that it's very poorly, no innards and some dents.

Edited August 22, 2015 by mkeeley

[missuslovett]

Looks like a good project. I'm not sure about that clip, though! Just personal taste. Have you got the Swan chart? It gives a bit of a clue to the patterns war and post war, though it's not helpful on dates.

 

 

[mkeeley]

If it wasn't for the clip I probably wouldn't have bid on it considering the state the pen's in.

 

Someone linked that chart eariler but thank you, didn't really help me though. Did try a quick google image search to try and find the silver pen but didn't find a match.

[birchtine]

Marc, maybe start a new thread for this Swan. MarcSchiman, Cob or someone else may be able to say more about the pen and its overlay when they see it.

[mkeeley]

Yep I will do.

[grainweevil]

That stub looks nice. All my Swans are 1s and 2s, so I'm keen to branch out. As I said before, all of my Swans flex to a greater or lesser extent but I probably just haven't found a nail yet... *

 

 

**** Forgot about the Blackbird that I sold on. You could engrave with that bloody thing!

 

I was thinking I'd managed to find the only Swan nail in a 3230 just recently; couldn't believe my (bad) luck. Oddly enough it came with a Waterman, although not a W2 but a 512V, which is a genuinely tiny pen.

[Cob]

Looks like a good project. I'm not sure about that clip, though! Just personal taste. Have you got the Swan chart? It gives a bit of a clue to the patterns war and post war, though it's not helpful on dates.

 

Swan Chart.pdf

I love snake clips, and was tempted by this pen - mainly for that reason, plus I have spare filling mechanisms albeit not in silver!

 

Cob

[slow_cheetah]

Hello. Regards. Could anyone possibly tell me if a Waterman W2 nib would fit in a Waterman Graduate pen, please? Thank you 🙏