My collection of Deco Bands, Pre- and Gold seals pens

[Wahlnut]

Obviously the state of the state regarding this topic is not going to be definitive no matter how much deductive reasoning we apply. Because I know both the people who say they have original new in box pens that have never ben repaired, and that I know they would definitely know if a pen was not in that pristine class, it seems clear that there is this "un-documented" category of correctness for the pens in question. I agree with David that relying solely on archival material is inconclusive about pens like the WAHL PEN deco bands which do not appear in any literature so far, there is no doubt that the WAHL-EVERSHARP trimmed pens that DO appear in the literature are what the company meant to put forward as their standard image for the pens. Lynn's argument is equally compelling, but I as to his point that advertising material was behind the curve, I reply that the EVERSALES newsletters announcing the coming introduction of the "deco band" pens was ahead of dealer orders. And that is a very important point. The factory took orders from dealers. They did not ship whatever they wanted to to dealers without the dealer ordering the pens or accepting the pens that arrived as the ones they ordered. There were a fleet of sales people carrying samples to the dealers in addition to the printed word. These sales folks would have had samples and the dealer would have ordered from them and gotten what they were shown, or there would have been trouble. I grew up in such abusiness where the salesman came around and took orders, so I saw it first hand, and I also saw what happened when the item delivered was not the item ordered. Were these prototypes? Were these test sales objects? All possible indeed.

 

Yet I can see in my vintage cars, for example that some parts that were used from an earlier model show up on newer models and interviews ith old factory workers show that when parts supply was not able to keep production moving, they used whatever parts were on hand. Interesting

 

 

Syd