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#1 Rick Krantz

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Posted 30 September 2014 - 07:23 AM

Hello everyone!

well, the baby is here, and life is starting to get back to normal. I was having dinner with a long time friend, and he asked me to help him sell a few of his pens he no longer wanted to collect. In the pens there were quite a few vintage conklins, so I told him I would be glad to. In addition, I had a few to offer as well.

So here's the deal... you see something you like, send me an email. Only two of the eight pens/pencils are mine, the rest are his.....  So, I will put you in touch with him, for all matters concerning payment, etc....

Oh, like the item, but don't like the price, send us an email, we can talk!

All of these pens are freshly restored, meaning new fresh bladders, cleaned, etc... I have left the surfaces as-is to preserve the pen as close to original as possible. Any flaws I found have been pointed out.

These all come with my regular 1 year warranty on function, or basically the restoration. In that time, I will repair your pen to properly function as it should. This doesn't cover breakage, but we will do what we can to help the best we can.

Keep in mind, there are some relatively rare pens here, and some nice writers, so check them out and enjoy!

Shipping charges are as follows....

US Domestic....  $4.00 first class with tracking (I found that with materials, I have been not charging enough, and still am at a slight loss, figure the $3.37 with tracking then .20 cents bubble wrap, and .50 cent box, well, anyway, enough of that, sorry for the price increase everyone)

International....  $10.00 standard shipping.

well, thanks for looking, any questions, email me at: ckrantz3@msn.com

From left to right....

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C1  Conklin 20P crescent filler in BCHR, really crisp pen, great color. the only flaw I could find, and I had to reall look for something, is a tiny little pit or tick on the crescent. otherwise this pen is as flawless as could be. rebuilt, fills, writes, incredible flexible Conklin 2 14K fine point nib with lots of line variation. If you like flex nibs, this one is for you. ITEM PRICE $125

C2 Conklin Endura in black plastic. This is a rare pen. It is a factory streamlined endura. Think a flattop pen, late production, and the rage was the streamlined pens like the sheaffer balance, and even the streamlined duofolds. What to do when your new line of pens are the rounded symetriks, and you got a lot of big flattop enduras left? well, conklin streamlined them. I have personally seen maybe 3 of these ever, all that I saw were pearl and black and plain black. This one is even more so odd, in that it seemed someone sorta painted the annular rings "black" I was thinking it was dirt, but it appears to be paint, and most of it was gone, yielding yellow bands on the cap, and red bands on the barrel. Strange pen to say the least. It suffers from trim wear, all the trim is brassed, clip, bands, and lever, it presents well, and works, rebuilt, fills, writes. Some marks on ends from use, barrel threads have a few scuffs, cap threads properly and correctly, but cosmetically, the barrel threads are not perfect. NO CHIPS OR CRACKS. firm 14K Conklin Toledo fine point nib. You are buying this for the rare factor, when have you seen another? ITEM PRICE $400

C3 Conklin Endura Symetrik pencil in green marble with black veins. This is for an oversized pen, great pencil in great condition, very hard to find the really large pencils. clean trim, seems to function. ITEM PRICE $60

C4 Conklin Endura Symetrik in green with black veins. While the color is better than most, this one does have some mild discoloration. I call it maybe 75%, it looks a little better in the picture. These are quite hard to find nice. This one has a nice writing 14K Conklin Toledo slightly flex fine nib, that makes the pen really nice to use. Trim is real decent, slight brassing on end of clip. ITEM PRICE $225

C5 Conklin Student pen in black plastic. condition-wise, this one is not perfect. It has some heavy trim wear/brassing, but this one has a great 14K medium flexible Conklin Toledo nib. ITEM PRICE $100

C6 Conklin Student pen in green marble with lots of fine black veining. This is one of the prettiest pens I have seen in some time. It has a name engraved on the barrel, but condition is superb. It has a fine point slightly flexible 14K Conklin Toledo nib. tiny speck of brassing to the clip, otherwise, not sure where you find them this clean. ITEM PRICE $125

C7 Conklin Endura in black and bronze. Nice looking pen, with a nice slightly flexible Conklin Toledo 14K fine point. This one has slight trim wear, nothing terrible, just light wear from use. The barrel threads have two points where a sliver has laminated off the plastic, which does not affect the threading or use of the pen. It writes quite well, and is a nice example. ITEM PRICE $125

C8 Conklin Lever fill nozac in black. Not sure what to call these. They are uncommon and sorta neat little pens. They are faceted like the nozacs, but are lever fillers. It is of Toledo manufacture, with a 14K Conkin cushon point, fine firm. Slight trim wear, mainly a few high point spots on clip and a few tiny spots on the band. Otherwise, a great items that you seldom see. I personally had two of these in my years of collecting, both black, one actually had "reverse trim" go figure. This one has gold filled trim. ITEM PRICE $150

 



#2 Procyon

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Posted 30 September 2014 - 02:48 PM

PM sent.


Edited by Procyon, 30 September 2014 - 02:49 PM.


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