Oh Dr. Issacson, your words are quite contemptuous and cornering, but I'll try my best.
You are wrong. My words were specific and accurate. That you find specificity and accuracy threatening is... telling.
I await reconciliation of your two statements " I previously stated I've not handled any....A nice pen, but nothing too rare about the pen." regarding the Waterman 472 1/2 Pansy Panel Sterling overly
When I stated that it means exactly that. Common pattern, common nib, but yes uncommon size. IMO that's all it has going.
The size is not uncommon, as has already been pointed out to you.
So, you've never seen the pen. People who know a great deal about Waterman have opined regarding its uncommon status. You, apparently being a "little expert and "#1 'who sounds smart', rather than ask what intrigues those who know more than you, have commented that nothing about the pen is too rare. You don't apparently know enough to know what is uncommon about it, despite your never having seen one of these before, and you did not absorb what was handed to you in the comments about the pen itself, which describe what is uncommon about it. Go... figure.
Now IMO a rare Pansy overlay may be of which is a taper eyedropper with snake accommodation cap. Huh, now you can't tell me that would be a $1500-2k pen given the Swann auction results for my favorite pen their, a Waterman smooth silver taper own with a snake accommodation cap for $1150 I believe (I have to double check).
We return to babble.
Those who assert, "You can't tell me..." often are in great need of being told.
regards
david