Had a nice time during my relatively brief visit (just 2 not 4 days this time) to the Chicago Pen Show May 2012. While in general there are many nice pens out there to be bought, and while I regularly buy stock and additions to my pen collection, there are not too many pens currently on my firm want list. At Chicago I added one I'd hunted for years. It is in nice shape, though I'll likely have lever replaced or re-chromed. A small thing, that.
The pen to follow is-- by contour-- a 1937-1941 original Sheaffer Crest. Some suggest Parker's 1940 Vacumatic Imperial owes something to it
This one probably was not made all four years. I've had many Crests. Shot one of this sort a few years ago. But, never managed to score this variant for my collection before this weekend.
Care to comment on what is interesting?
regards
David