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#1 grandmia

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Posted 06 May 2015 - 01:02 PM

Hi All

 

A beauty, but what is it ? One of you knowledgeable chaps will know.

 

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#2 Peterg

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Posted 06 May 2015 - 04:01 PM

The Waverley was manufactured by MacNiven & Cameron and the nib would date it from after 1925. I would date it around the early 1930's.



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Posted 06 May 2015 - 04:35 PM

The Waverley was manufactured by MacNiven & Cameron and the nib would date it from after 1925. I would date it around the early 1930's.

I found that information, however i wasn't aware of the date of the nib. The rest is still a puzzle.



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Posted 06 May 2015 - 09:41 PM

Macniven and Cameron began as stationers and publishers in Edinburgh.  Later they established a factory making dip pen nibs in Birmingham.  When fountain pens became popular they made them too – and later had them made by Burnham.  The Waverley was first a famous dip pen nib and then became the name of one of their lines of fountain pens.  The stylised image on the clip is of Sir Walter Scott and the top of the clip is a simplified image of a Scottish thistle.

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Posted 06 May 2015 - 10:22 PM

Macniven and Cameron began as stationers and publishers in Edinburgh.  Later they established a factory making dip pen nibs in Birmingham.  When fountain pens became popular they made them too – and later had them made by Burnham.  The Waverley was first a famous dip pen nib and then became the name of one of their lines of fountain pens.  The stylised image on the clip is of Sir Walter Scott and the top of the clip is a simplified image of a Scottish thistle.

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Hi Debs

 

Thanks for the added information. Some of it i was aware of.

I didn't realize the image was of young Walter and the thistle clip. So is this a Waverley pen and who or what is Thames Mills ? 

Thanks again, hopefully the puzzle will come together.

 

Stef. 



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Posted 07 May 2015 - 08:24 AM

It's a Macniven and Cameron pen but not a Waverley.  Waverley were a particular line of Macniven and Cameron pens in the same way as Parker had a line called Duofolds.  The Waverley was the pen with the famous leaf-shaped nib.  I assume that Thames Mills was a company, long-defunct now, who ordered these pens from Macniven and Cameron as advertising material.



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Posted 11 May 2015 - 09:21 AM

Thames Mills probably relates to Thames Board Mills. Although known as either TBM or Thames Paper Co. their address was Thames Mills and that was the name their sports clubs used, certainly up to the 1940's. There is also a reference to 'Thames Mills' in an advert for fibre board and pannelling board in several adverts in the 1920's.



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Posted 11 May 2015 - 02:40 PM

Thames Mills probably relates to Thames Board Mills. Although known as either TBM or Thames Paper Co. their address was Thames Mills and that was the name their sports clubs used, certainly up to the 1940's. There is also a reference to 'Thames Mills' in an advert for fibre board and pannelling board in several adverts in the 1920's.

The plot thickens. Thank you for the added information.



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Posted 12 May 2015 - 04:40 PM

By an extraordinary coincidence, I have just purchased a Swan desk pen, the holder of which carries the logo of Thames Mills.  I am not actually using the holder because some very kind friends gave me a lovely pen holder with a super swan on it!

 

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And here's the Swan with its mate.

 

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