Very early Symetrik Preston, also a very uncommon one !! You've summed it up pretty well...a bit of old, a bit of new. I've yet to have the pleasure of one of those in hand.
Regards
Hugh
Thank you Hugh! Have you seen others similar to this one?
-Preston
Hi Preston,
I've seen similiar ( how similiar is testing my memory!! but I say the same) , there's a slightly later one
here . The "story" is that once the Sheaffer Balance appeared there was a mad rush by Conklin to make streamline pens hence a number of very short lived " evolution" pens seem to appear. So dating is difficult but the catalogue tells us by 1930 the streamline process was complete ( you leaf green E/Symetrik dates from that time frame and it's there, only colour streamline shown and with the inlaid crescent) and shows flattop Enduras and combos. Yours would seem to be one of , if not, the earliest of the "streamlines", the one linked to is later noting it has the inlaid crescent. The crescent seems a later feature but my OS leaf green doesn't have one, how that all fits in I don't know !! Maybe the one linked to is later than it appears. Time wise yours is probably '27/'28 , I suspect by '29 the transformation was fairly advanced ( with a few ???).
Regards
Hugh
Edited by Hugh, 12 February 2013 - 11:07 PM.