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[Fred H]

The title says it all.  Has anyone seen a Conklin desk pen crescent-filler?

 

Fred

[Roger W.]

Fred;

 

I don't recall one and I'd say probably not.  You have to keep in mind that Sheaffer started desk sets rolling in 1924 which is a little late for Conklin to come out with a crescent filler.  I think that would have been very cool.  I have to admit there is only one desk pen that I usually have inked up and that is a Conklin.  It will start every time even after sitting a couple of weeks.  I do have over 300 Sheaffer desk bases so it really speaks to a basic level of lazy that I don't have one of them inked up.

 

Roger W.

[David Nishimura]

Yes, but not a desk pen of the sort that sits in a holder. The earlier desk pens had caps and long, tapered bodies, and were for the most part from the eyedropper era (Waterman's pre-1917 4X series pens are probably the best known and most common, though still quite scarce). I know of two extant examples of a Conklin crescent-filling desk pen of this type, one of which is in the Sachs-Fultz collection, the other I sold to a collector several years back.

 

Not listed in any extant Conklin catalogs or ads, to my knowledge.