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[Greg Minuskin]

I feel like a dummy when I find stuff like this; looks cheap, but it is interesting nevertheless.

Can someone help me with this? Toss in the trash or revere as a collectable?




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[Procyon]

Well, I certainly wouldn't toss it in the trash, but it probably is a cheap Japanese pen - fairly old, with a glass nib, modeled after the Conkllin Crescent fillers. Don't think you can retip this one, Greg!

[Greg Minuskin]

Well, I certainly wouldn't toss it in the trash, but it probably is a cheap Japanese pen - fairly old, with a glass nib, modeled after the Conkllin Crescent fillers. Don't think you can retip this one, Greg!

Gosh knows I will try Allan to retip this nib

Thanks for your response!

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[sloegin]

Spors.

Edit: is probably the brand.

Edited by sloegin, 25 May 2013 - 03:55 AM.

[Greg Minuskin]

Spors? Neat. Thank you.


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[sloegin]

Yep. Had to figure out the odd spelling myself. Anyway here are the sold ebay listings.

[Greg Minuskin]

Yep. Had to figure out the odd spelling myself. Anyway here are the sold ebay listings.

Oh cool! So $30 bucks, thank you!

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Edited by Greg Minuskin, 25 May 2013 - 04:21 AM.

[JonSzanto]

Yeah, I think there have been a couple of Spors threads here, I know I dug up some info on it.

BTW, Greg: If I'm reading it correctly, it looks like the crescent is mongrammed J. M. S. - which happens to be my initials! Let me know if you end up not wanting it or something...

[JonSzanto]

Greg, here's the thread I was alluding to earlier.

[Greg Minuskin]

Yeah, I think there have been a couple of Spors threads here, I know I dug up some info on it.

BTW, Greg: If I'm reading it correctly, it looks like the crescent is mongrammed J. M. S. - which happens to be my initials! Let me know if you end up not wanting it or something...

I will be happy to let you have this pen! Contact me at greg@gregminuskin.com and we can work a deal, okay J.M.S.!

So nice to have fun on this site, thank you!

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[philm]

It may be a Spors (Frank Spors owned a catalog marketing operation in Minnesota) catalog pen, though I have not seen this "demonstrator" model in any of the catalogs I have. However, my collection of catalogs is far from complete. Many of his marketed pens do have the name SPORS imprinted on them, but not all. So, I would say that there is a good chance this is a pen sold out of his catalog, but not for certain.

Here are a few Spors articles that I wrote a few years ago, with photos and a few catalog shots.

http://munsonpens.wo...category/spors/


Phil

[JonSzanto]

I will be happy to let you have this pen! Contact me...

Check your email...

[jonro]

By the way, be careful if you try to restore it. Spors sometimes glued their sections to the body. In that case, it will take a master of the heat gun to remove the section without breaking the pen.

[Greg Minuskin]

Oh, I won't touch it; I will leave it in the "as found" condition for some lucky person to have!

Thank you for the warning! Well taken!

Greg Minuskin

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Edited by Greg Minuskin, 26 May 2013 - 04:39 AM.

[piscov]

Hi Greg,
Actually you can "re-tip" this "nib".

One of mine Haro pens ,showed in the above mentioned post, had a broken "nib" (about 0,5 mm), so I decided to sand it using a 800 sand paper and then with a 1200 . After that I used a polishing cloth wheel to finish it and I ended up with a broad nib working pretty well..


This glass nibs are not easy to find anymore and this can be a good compromising solution...

The problem is that I don't have 1/10 of your mastery, nor the glass will ever return any flex, but this nibs are surprisingly good writers IMHO.

BR

Vasco

Edited by piscov, 26 May 2013 - 08:39 AM.