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Wahl Gold Seal Flat Top Clip, "Wahl Pen" vs. "Eversharp"


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Hello everyone,

Made a FPN account to ask this question, but I recently bought a Gold Seal Flat top, with a roller clip that says "Wahl Pen". This pen is similar to a Deco-Band, but has two slim bands in lieu of the thicker decorated band. All of the photos I have seen of this type of pen (with the two slim bands at the bottom of the cap) have clips that read "Eversharp". I'm trying to understand if there is some important distinction between the two and hopefully figure out a rough time frame of when this pen was made. I attached some photos of it.

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I´m not an expert on Wahl , but I believe your line of pens was manufactured from 1927 to 1932. The Wahl company started calling its pens Wahl Eversharp in 1929, so we might presume your pen was manufactured around 27/28.

 

The "decoband" is another pen, larger and thicker, it is called the Oversize Personal Point and was manufactured between 1929 and 1932. However I have one which is marked as Wahl Pen, so....

 

 

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Your pen definitely has 1927-28 characteristics but the gold seal first appeared in late 1928 (it is introduced in November 1928 Wahl advertisements). By that time the clip imprint also changed from "Wahl Pen" to "Wahl Eversharp". So I would date your pen to this in-between period (late 1928-early 1929), unless the clip is a replacement.

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Thanks for bringing up this topic. I have two of these smaller flat-top pens with the two small cap rings, and one the same size but with fancier cap rings, and they all say Wahl Eversharp on the rolling-ball clip. I also have three Deco Bands, one that says Wahl Eversharp, one that has Wahl Pen on it (with a gold seal, so very close to the same date as OP's pen) and one that I didn't realize has a replacement clip, not a rolling ball but just a static ball and no engraving. The clip was accurately described in my pen database, but I didn't draw the obvious conclusion that it is a replacement clip. 

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And as a historical note, some Eversharp pens were marked with WAHL to allegedly keep the trademark active.  Here is one from the mid-1940s.

It is an Early Skyline with a WAHL branded Nib and pocket Clip. And yes, these are truly hard to find.  I have nothing for production numbers.

 

 

 

 

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Wahl Pen pens (nibs said Wahl pen too ) we’re made as such from c. 1924 to 1928. Wahl made no plastic pens until 1927. 1929 saw the first Wahl-Eversharp branded clips the pen in question. So 1927-8 is the dating. There’s a lot more about branding and engraved indicia but that for another topic to come. 

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