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[stevlight]

Great to see all these pens.

I feel lucky to have seen some at the Big Apple Pen Club meeting on thursday.

Thanks again Rick and David.

[penpalace]

wow is all I can say Dave, not only did I miss a great pen show but some fantastic pens as well. well done to the five of you! if anything neat is still for sale out of the group get in touch with me backchannel.

[david i]

Item 46-52 of about 200. Focus on small name pens. Hicks is well known for making metal pens and combos in various metals. High quality items, they feature plump nibs. They made pens for Tiffany's.

• HIcks Combo Solid Gold
• Hicks lever-fill pen. Solid Gold
• Hicks Combo. Nice pattern. Solid Gold
• LARGE Hicks Combo (squeezed into there slots), gold-filled
• Hicks set Sterling.
• Colorado (italian) double pen in classic "Parker Vacumatic" stripes.
• Century ribbon pen. Gold-filled Overlay. Another classic.

Pen 53- of about 200: Moore. The various "A" pens (modifying earlier numbers such as 96, with addition of an "A") probably date to early 1940's. Decent pens in lovely plastics, they fall a bit below collectable pendom's radar.

• Uncommon striped Fingertip (referring to the nib).
• The only "A" era (as in 94-A, 96-A, 82-A, etc) Demonstrator I've seen.
• L-96 flat-top black and bronze.
• L-82 (?) Black with blue top
• ??? model (white-top and black) (possibly an "A" style pen)
• green striped small pen
• Snakeskin celluloid L-70A
• Diamond-pattern brown pearl pen, poassibly "A" era
• marbled stripes brown/black

regards

david

[Terry Brack]

The two - toned Moore set is probably called an "Esquire Set" I have a similar two-toned set in gray and stripe with some original literature.

[david i]

The two - toned Moore set is probably called an "Esquire Set" I have a similar two-toned set in gray and stripe with some original literature.

Thanks for sharing that, Terry. First time I've seen that info. By chance is the paper dated?

regards

david

[Terry Brack]

The Colorado in vac stripes is pretty cool. Can you shoot it opened up and in "action", illustrating how it works as a two nibbed pen?

[Terry Brack]

Sorry, no date on the literature but I can share some more pics and point out that the sticker identifies this set as a model 92-A.

[david i]

Rick Propas took home the Colorado, but I did shoot it properly before it left my apartment. Will be a few days until have all the images cleaned up


regards

d

[Terry Brack]

Sorry, no date on the literature but I can share some more pics and point out that the sticker identifies this set as a model 92-A.

[david i]

Pen 62-68

• Modern Parker Duofold set.
• Parker VP Prototype (special nib)
• Parker 75 Sterling Cisele early pen
• Parker Royal Challenger: full size, burgundy, sword clip
• Parker 75 Queen Elizabeth LE
• Parker 75 Ambassador Tiffany's
• Parker 180 Retirement set.

regards

David

[david i]

Item 69-78 Need to have Propas help with some of the models

• MB black HR 1920's? #1?
• MB Cracked Ice 1920's
• MB Hexagonal Solid Gold
• MB Safety. ? Solid Gold
• MB mini set with note pad
• MB 142 black celluloid
• MB from 1960's-70's
• MB White set
• MB 146 ? 1950's
• MB 146

regards

David

[Will]

I want to see more of that tiny mini MB!

[travberg]

More pictures, PLEASE!