A Trio Of Swallow Combos

[Greenie]

Posting just for fun.

I finally fixed the black and cream/cow/nacre/black and pearl/pick your favorite name.... (Had to make a new section)

And I broke a bulb for my pic setup, and got new LEDs that are so much better.

Too late to make a long story short, I know......

 

The Moak book shows three additional colors which are black, scarlet/coral, and black with green marble

 

Enjoy!

 

 

[chunya]

They are simply stunning

[MarcShiman]

I really like the first one, a harder-to-find color. I have a few of the basic colored swallows, and I think I have a coral swallow combo.

 

Here are some of my more interesting Swallow patterned pens

 

 

 

[Cob]

Marc,

 

It is interesting that some of your Swallows have my preferred long-lever system, so i presume that they have the classic floating pressure bar as opposed to the J-bar. Are these likely to be earlier than the J-bar models with the short levers?

 

Cob

[MarcShiman]

Hi Cob,

 

I don't know the mechanics of the levers in these cases, but I can say that these are later pens than the ones that Greenie shows. I draw my clues from the celluloids, the shape of the barrels, and the bands.

 

Marc

[Cob]

That suggests that MT switched to their traditional system later. Greenie's pens all have short levers. The same thing happened in England after the War. First they produced those rather irritating models with the brass threads and short levers, and then switched to the long levers. I have just today bought a dark blue one in fact!

 

As an aside I have had SF230s both with long and short levers, wide and narrow bands to the barrels. It seems that MT had a problem making up their minds on this!

 

Cob

Edited June 5, 2018 by Cob

[mhphoto]

On 5/30/2018 at 5:48 AM, MarcShiman said:

I really like the first one, a harder-to-find color. I have a few of the basic colored swallows, and I think I have a coral swallow combo.

 

Here are some of my more interesting Swallow patterned pens

 

 

 

I have a Bayard “Le Super 8” that is made from a nearly identical celluloid as the second to the last in your picture!