journeyman
Posted 28 August 2014 - 02:28 PM
Coming up on Ebay soon, maybe no replies by the time it closes.
Its too long to be standard, too thin to be anything I've seen. The color is... different. I imagine its one of their school pens, but I never saw that in a flat top. Also, it has the long lever, although the ad says "toledo". Also the cap band comes down to the end of the cap lip.
Sooo.... any ideas?
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ADVISOR
Posted 28 August 2014 - 05:12 PM
Not sure. The mottled gripping section is a normal finding for some of the red pens, iirc. Agreed it seems slender. Cap lip instead of cap-band rings bell (earlier finding on some crescent-fill pens?). I'll have to punt on this one. It does seem to be a non-Endura variant. Not sure about that cap lip.
regards
david
journeyman
Posted 28 August 2014 - 07:59 PM
I have a similar pen, different color with two gold bands on the cap instead of one, and I am under the impression it is a "Three Fifty" pen as established in pages 132-133 of The Conklin Legasy by Alfonso Mur, if wrong someone will correct me here...
journeyman
Posted 28 August 2014 - 10:36 PM
$172 - some indication that there were other curious people as well.
Please join the Mabie Todd Swan project where I am trying to sort out the undocumented mess that is American Mabie Todd's from the 1930's. The last pens that MT seemed to advertise were the "Eternal" pens, and then the company put out a wide range of different styles, shapes, sizes and filling systems before eventually closing up shop. I invite you to post your pictures of your American pens
journeyman
Posted 28 August 2014 - 11:57 PM
It's a 46....stamped on the barrel. The long lever is early '20's. I'd suspect a sub Duragraph model nor do I recall seeing one before, nice pen had thought it might have done better.
Regards
Hugh
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