"Pontiac" Roseglow Balance
#1
Posted 13 May 2013 - 02:20 AM
#2
Posted 13 May 2013 - 03:52 AM
If I hadn't already found the Roseglow Pontiac Sheaffer Balance, I probably would not have been... under... bidder on that one
We have had some discussion before about 1930's pens carrying markings for car makers.
Parker and Sheaffer 1930's Pens with Auto Maker Markings
david
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#5
Posted 13 May 2013 - 04:21 AM
It's a really nice pen, David. I'm glad you already had one so I could get one, too!
I'd like to find a pen with a Buick emblem. Does anyone have one?
Hi,
I've not see a Buick-marked pen yet. I do have at home a black Balance with Cadillac markings. Need to shoot...
regards
d
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#6
Posted 13 May 2013 - 04:36 AM
Hi,
I've not see a Buick-marked pen yet. I do have at home a black Balance with Cadillac markings. Need to shoot...
regards
d
I thought your Cadillac badged pen was pictured in your Pennant article on cap bands. Turns out it was the Roseglow Pontiac pen! I guess I had seen one before after all.
#8
Posted 13 May 2013 - 04:54 AM
regards
david
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#10
Posted 13 May 2013 - 05:21 AM
Note too, it is the 2nd Roseglow pattern, one found generally only on lower tier slender Rosies. Not quite sure what that's about, but it is one more quirk of Balance collecting.
regards
david
Well, this is a lower tier slender Balance, right?
Yep. Noting it is a bit quirky by lack of "Sheaffer's" on imprint, the core pen would be, for that era, a third-tier (#3-nib, flat-ball clip) slender Balance. Sometime soon, I will need to shoot also the two Roseglow patterns next to each other.
regards
d
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#13
Posted 15 May 2013 - 03:45 PM
I have a few car pieces but nothing with a Buick emblem. I have a crest set with DeSoto markings, a OS Duofold which was a Studebaker salesman award piece and a Wahl bchr set with Cadillac emblems. The Wahl set I should have for sale in DC, the others are keepers!
#14
Posted 16 May 2013 - 12:15 PM
That would be a great idea and it would be even more interesting if you could add a carmine striated pen to the lot.Sometime soon, I will need to shoot also the two Roseglow patterns next to each other.
regards
d
I am not familiar with the rose glow pattern. I find pictures of it here and there but when looking at the beautiful pen above, I do have difficulties identifying it as a rose glow striated. For my untrained eye it could be a carmine striated as well.
#15
Posted 16 May 2013 - 01:33 PM
That would be a great idea and it would be even more interesting if you could add a carmine striated pen to the lot.
Sometime soon, I will need to shoot also the two Roseglow patterns next to each other.
regards
d
I am not familiar with the rose glow pattern. I find pictures of it here and there but when looking at the beautiful pen above, I do have difficulties identifying it as a rose glow striated. For my untrained eye it could be a carmine striated as well.
Oh, I did the Carmine/Roseglow thing like ten years ago....
regards
david
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#16
Posted 16 May 2013 - 02:23 PM
Very nice picture, thanks! And it nicely demonstrates my problem: the difference between roseglow and carmine striated is quite clear in this picture but when you would place these pens next to the 'Pontiac' Sheaffer pen above ... I would identify the Pontiac Sheaffer as being carmine striated.
That would be a great idea and it would be even more interesting if you could add a carmine striated pen to the lot.
Sometime soon, I will need to shoot also the two Roseglow patterns next to each other.
regards
d
I am not familiar with the rose glow pattern. I find pictures of it here and there but when looking at the beautiful pen above, I do have difficulties identifying it as a rose glow striated. For my untrained eye it could be a carmine striated as well.
Oh, I did the Carmine/Roseglow thing like ten years ago....
regards
david
So is the 2nd roseglow pattern then more comparable to the carmine striated pattern?
#17
Posted 16 May 2013 - 03:13 PM
regards
david
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#18
Posted 16 May 2013 - 03:25 PM
Very nice picture, thanks! And it nicely demonstrates my problem: the difference between roseglow and carmine striated is quite clear in this picture but when you would place these pens next to the 'Pontiac' Sheaffer pen above ... I would identify the Pontiac Sheaffer as being carmine striated.
So is the 2nd roseglow pattern then more comparable to the carmine striated pattern?
We can blame this mostly on the poor lighting present in my photograph. The grays in my photographs just don't show up well. If it were in the same light as the pens in David's picture, you would definitely group the Pontiac pen with David's Roseglow, even though they are a bit different.
Edited by BrianMcQueen, 16 May 2013 - 03:27 PM.
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