7 replies to this topic

[welch]

Anyone understand how this Skyline might have been produced?

 

Mentioned on FPN, it seems to be marbled: 

 

http://www.ebay.com/...=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

I've never seen a Skyline in marble, but it's hard to imagine anyone going to the trouble to shape a barrel, install a lever, install an Eversharp clip and what looks like an 

Eversharp nib and feed just to auction on Ebay for about $50.

 

Someone suggested this was made in the Eversharp factory as a one-off using older stock. OK. Maybe. There is a legend that someone at Parker Arrow Park stamped out a Frontier fountain pen in silver when the factory closed. Maybe an Eversharp worker took a dislike to the "new" (as of early '40s) all-one-color streamlined look?

 

 

[david i]

Looks more Parker/Sheaffer for the plastic than Wahl. Did someone have fun in his machine shop last week?  The material does look 1930s, not modern at least.

[Rocco P]

I've seen before pens like this. Eversharp clones made in Italy.

[david i]

Could be. Fitted with Wahl metal work though?

 

-d

[Hugh]

Nice pen regardless. I'm doubtful about the "from my own personal collection" though as an overnight stay seems to earn that status in the past. I've bought from him years ago and on that he was very good to deal with.

 

Regards

Hugh

[vintage penman]

Almost certainly an Italian made clone - with the addition of an Eversharp nib and clip. All the rest is identical and fully interchangeable with the real McCoy. Used to own a clone and several Skylines at one time.

Damn it---- I must look for another of each now !

[Diabolical_Engineer]

Well, it went for ~170 USD. That's a bit more than I would have paid for it, but it was an interesting pen at least.

 

-Eric

Edited by Diabolical_Engineer, 16 June 2015 - 02:50 AM.

[matt]

The section does NOT have a Skyline shape.