journeyman
Posted 03 February 2016 - 03:47 AM
I have just picked up a second lot of a estate buy and this lovely lizard skin was among the lot. It has a warranted 14 CT nib with the barrel imprint of BRITISH 'Savoy' MADE. Researching 'Savoy' shows it is a not so common brand, so I am kind of chuffed. It is 130 mm capped and quite chunky in the girth. Have yet to clean it up and fit a new ink sac.
I see the clip is the same as a Strand that was just sold on our local auction site.
journeyman
Posted 03 February 2016 - 10:19 AM
That's a real find! I agree that they're Langs pens.
greenhorn
Posted 03 February 2016 - 07:18 PM
hello Innes - I'm jealous too - it's a really great lizard colour - well done:) The design of your clip, and both of the end jewel/metal arrangements, are identical to a black pen that has recently been id for me as coming from Lang. The barrel of mine carries the imprint MADE IN ENGLAND and PAT. NO. 29336/37.
greenhorn
Posted 03 February 2016 - 10:33 PM
more years ago than I care to remember, I worked very close the the Strand (London, U.K.) - and walked through some part of that road on almost every one of the five office working days, but I don't now recall there being a large stationers, but there may well have been something. Not sure how far back Rymans go - wouldn't have been W. H. Smith I'm certain, as that was just round the corner in Kingsway (the first branch from which they sold 'Lady C') - and long since gone.
Is it possible the pens might have been given as complimentary items to patrons of the hotel, perhaps - but equally the word may have been used rather loosely to convey prestige, in the same way we might use other words taken out of their usual context i.e. Pullman, Royal, Astoria, Lincoln, Oxford, Windsor etc., and therefore not Strand related at all?
Just thoughts:)
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