Can you identify the pens and quirks?
No prize for this, as I cannot find original high res image.
regards
David
Posted 26 June 2011 - 03:19 PM
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Posted 27 June 2011 - 02:10 PM
I thought you had one?
Hey Mr. Doctor, we need the correct answers!
/Tony
Posted 01 July 2011 - 12:06 PM
nice rack of burgundy vacs!
a quick first crack, with some nuances missed (or gotten plain wrong), i'm sure:
1. vacuum filler
2. transitional “1.5th” generation pen—looks like a standard, but has a speedline filler (and cap chunklier than a streamlined standard)
3. senior maxima
4. blue diamond burgundy major—but single-jewel
5. late canadian burgundy major
6. debutante
7. very uncommon burgundy junior
8. matching junior pencil
9. burgundy sub-deb
1-Vacuum Filler or Vacumatic Sub Jr
2-Transitional Standard Vacumatic with Lockdown style cap and speedline body
3-A so called "Overmax". Senior Maxima Cap on a lockdown body
4-Long Major, possibly with a metal filler
5-Major, probably Canadian
6-Canadian Senior Debutante
7-Canadian Junior set
8-Possibly Canadian Junior Debutante
Posted 01 July 2011 - 12:51 PM
thanks--was about to sell off (really cheaply) a single-jewel burgundy debutante (#6) that i picked up last year in vietnam.
Posted 03 July 2011 - 01:56 AM
Posted 03 July 2011 - 05:32 AM
Did the opaque burgundy vac ever come with a black section or was it always the single barrel-section? I picked a burgundy that is the same length as my other two but is fatter and is either opaque or really really really ambered. Two striped jewels and a lockdown filler but the nib says Duofold 14K (d'oh!). I'd post a picture but all my efforts to take a good picture today came to naught.
Posted 03 July 2011 - 05:41 AM
Posted 03 July 2011 - 05:50 AM
But, things can get fuzzy at the edges. While I have never seen a one-piece typical transparent Vac (and there is a caveat to this as well), I have seen what seem to be opaque barrels with removable section, at least I vaguely recall that. IF that's the case, then a replacement section (in black) can be done, yielding a black section on an opaque pen. However, such pen still should have very early imprint, either with the "pat" mark but no date code (indicating first half of 1934 or earlier production) or perhaps a 1934 code at worst (as I don't know with certainty when opaque barrels were phased out... we would need to just keep examining pens to see). If your pen has later date code, it likely did not start out opaque (and yeah, there is a caveat even to that... the so called 1937-9 "parts blow out", but that's another story). At least, putting a fiber optic light up the barrel might help determine.
Posted 03 July 2011 - 06:00 AM
Yes, colour me confused. The imprint is very faint. It's "Made in Canada" followed by "Vacumatic" followed by "Pat No" (I think - very very faint). So far as I can tell, there is no discernible date. Underneath "Vacumatic", it says "Other Patents Pending." Does that shed any light on things? It seems consistent with what you say about the opaque pens but I don't have the eye to tell the difference between opaque and ambered. I should mention that the colour generally leans more to a darker, brownish tint (suggesting ambering?) than my other burgundies, which are truer to a pure burgundy colour.
Posted 04 July 2011 - 02:48 AM
Posted 04 July 2011 - 03:37 AM
I doubt I will ever reach the stage of advanced collector but I do enjoy trying to sort out the variations among my (extremely) modest collection. Thank you for your assistance. We really should call you Dr. Detective Isaacson or Detective Dr. Isaacson.
Regards,
Anna
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