This is a Patriot. The model was made during WWII, some with elaborate cap jewels representing the different branches of military service.
This one is a generic olive drab. The pen fills with a plunger that usually needs re-building after all these years.
Going back a few decades, here is a modest Tourist model in BCHR.
While that may have been carried by a low-key business man, this Big Red wannabe
Tourist was more likely seen with someone in the arts.
Here's a nicely detailed little ring-top.
On a totally different scale, this full size Tortoise Flat-Top. Tough color to photograph.
Pauk Erano shows this cigar in his Fountain Pens Then and Now. He calls the material Vanadium, but the barrel is imprinted SILVER CHROME.
Apparently Morrison like the model enough to do it in GP, although they did take the time to redesign the clip.
Here's a charming filigree ring-top set.
And finally, this full size silver filigree set that arrived a few days ago. (What looks like brassing
is just my refection.)
Hope you enjoy.
Dan
Edited by Blotto, 01 March 2012 - 10:52 PM.
