Request for Help Identifying Cross Pens

[Libby]

I have inherited some Cross pens, and I'm having trouble identifying the pens, as just as I think I figure it out, there is one thing different. I'm feeling overwhelmed trying to understand what I have. Can you please help identify my pens with the photos attached? In advance, many thanks!

[BaronWulfraed]

Off-hand, just variations of the "Classic Century"... Thing you have to take into account is that the "Classic" has been in production for decades -- I'm sure I saw at least one in the late 60s; they were common corporate gift pens for things like service awards.

 

With over 60 years of production, minor variations are to be expected.

[tmenyc]

Libby, those are Centurys or Classic Centurys. It's impossible, best I know, to date one, since as Baron said, they've been around in this form forever. 

 

My late father-in-law switched to Cross ballpoints and pencils in the early 1960's, when he was given a set by his engineering firm. Happily for me, his getting those Cross(es), which he used for the next 50 years, got him to abandon his two Parker 51 Vacs, which he stuck in a drawer. When he was failing in 2007, I found the Parkers and they were my first restorations, with all the wrong tools and workholding equipment. Hundreds of pens later, Timsvintagepens thrives because of his switch to Cross. 

 

Tim