Who Are The Diamond Point Collectors? Question...

[seanruss]

Diamond Point finds in LA Pen Show:

 

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i just love that yellow and blue marbled one! is it rare?

 

 

I only have 3 diamond point pens, and find that they write very smoothly. There was a nice blue DP flattop sold on ebay yesterday, did anyone here get it? I was going to bid more, but was out of $$$ :-(

[Redleg05]

I saw that pen too, but as I just found a blue one I decided not to bid. It looks like somebody got a good deal though.

 

That whole tray is gorgeous.

 

i just love that yellow and blue marbled one! is it rare?

 

 

I only have 3 diamond point pens, and find that they write very smoothly. There was a nice blue DP flattop sold on ebay yesterday, did anyone here get it? I was going to bid more, but was out of $$$ :-(

[MarcShiman]

i just love that yellow and blue marbled one! is it rare?

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Diamond Point did a lot of really exotic plastics, some never seen on other brands. That one fits the description. Diamond point flat tops aren't all that common to begin with, and the multi-color celluloid a appear to be less common that the solid colors.

 

Rare? Not sure if I would go that far. You do have to work to find them.

 

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[ivyman]

Here is a thread on Diamond Points. Some very nice DP pens shown. I am very happy with the one round top DP pen that I have. Having a lot of flexing fun with it.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/147150-diamond-point/

[MarcShiman]

More on that cream, blue (and brown splotches) pen.

 

Here's an isolated look at it:

 

 

 

First, there's supposed to be a cap band at the top (I'm having one made). A lot of these Diamond Points' plastics have shrunk, and that band falls off all the time.

 

Then there's the clip. Almost every other Diamond Point I've seen spells out Diamond - either Diamond PP or Diamond Point. This is one of a group that has a simple D in a diamond.

 

Here are two others:

 

 

 

These two also have the cap bands at top and bottom. All three have very unique plastics that I haven't seen on any other pen. While you can't see it, the nibs appear to be larger on these than other Diamond Points.

 

Were they part of a higher end line of Diamond Points? I haven't seen this combination of clip and cap band alignment on any other Diamond Point. I have absolutely no idea what years these would be.

[gweimer1]

I just know my budget is going to regret look at this thread...several times...

 

I just finished up Diamond Point Streamline. They do make some really nice celluloid.

[gweimer1]

This place is full of evil, evil people....

 

[dbhcheung]

I recently found one of their pens from a flea market. The problem is that it was a black hard rubber pen with cracks in it. Will the section fit anything else, or do I just have a really nice nib now?

[inkstainedruth]

Ran across this thread sort of by accident just now, and have a question.  A couple of years ago I picked up a Sears & Robuck "Good Service" pen in a box that which had a ribbon across the interior top that said "Diamond Medal [something] Mat".  Is that the same "Diamond" brand you're talking about?  Because from what little I've been able to find out about the Good Service pen (and another one I picked up at a different estate sale), both "Good Service" and "Diamond" were house brands for S&R and MAY have been made for them by major companies like Parker.  Which of course would explain why the pens seem similar to Parkers in looks....

Don't know yet how the pens write -- I had higher priority repairs to get done when I was at B-W over the weekend.  But both pens are still in the queue.  And the one in the "Diamond Point" box does look very similar to the celluloid I've seen on some early Parkers (that GS pen is also a pen/pencil combo, so it would be fun to get it up and running at some point).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: The "Good Service" pens were a lower-tier model than the "Diamond Point" ones apparently were, but were still supposed to be well made pens.

[shalitha33]

A thread with some info about diamond point . D.P.P co  N.Y and New Diamond Point Pen co, 236 fifth ave ,N.Y.

[GlenV]

I think the early diamond point pens were nice, if yours is BHR a crack can be a big problem especially in an eyedropper I think cracks in threaded section barrels are non repairable and need new barrel , if not a threaded section a barrel thread crack can be repaired with a sleeve of some sort (I use paper/ black ca glue, but most recommend brass tubing repair of this, any method is quite challenging) but the section requires reduced diameter so is alot of work, the crack would still be visible in hard rubber.   I had a later one that had pretty celluloid, and still have a 20's jade green one, like alot of pen companies the quality declined in later years due to the depression of 1929 which caused failure of quite a few smaller businesses.