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[welch]

Poking through EBay, I wondered about the market price for a Skyline now. Happened to see this:

 

http://www.ebay.com/...=item3f2e4673b7

(Item 271359308727)
 

Looks like a Skyline cap, but the rest is an "I don't know what that might have been". Seller says that the cap is loose, which it ought to be if this is a Whatever barrel and section.

 

Anyone see this as a Skyline?

[david i]

It is a mix. Cap appears to be Skyline or "-ish". I cannot see details in tiny pics. There are Skyline knockoffs out there, but a mix would be more likely.

 

regards

 

david

[matt]

Skyline cap with a loose derby - might just be loose, but the derbies have a bad habit of shrinking, thus could be really loose. Non-Skyline barrel, just something that sorta fits.

[welch]

Yes, I'll grant the seller a Skyline cap, but the barrel doesn't look like a Skyline. 

 

When I saw my first Skyline, I thought: What an ugly barrel! Then I got one (or a dozen, to be honest) and found that the design is perfect when you post the cap. And such soft nibs! 

 

This looks like an ordinary semi-torpedo shaped barrel with a Skyline cap. Oh, and Skyline prices seem not to have increased, except for a few wishful sellers. A good "starter pen" for people just becoming interested in fountain pens and wondering why people insist that "vintage" pens are better than the many current-production Chinese pens. Easy to replace the Skyline sac, and not so expensive that I worried when a Skyline shattered as I cleaned it with sunshine cloth. 

 

Context: who knew so much about "plastic" when the Skyline was produced, and I suspect that Eversharp's design team had no idea that 70 years later people would be fiddling with Skylines. Subtract 70 years from 1940 (for simplicity) and imagine what Eversharp's engineers would have thought about a top-line dip pen from 1870!

[Hugh]

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