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ticoun

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In Topic: Miracle and Marathon

24 January 2012 - 03:12 AM


I am not familiar with Miracle, but I do not believe this particular Marathon is an Eclipse sub brand. It is somehow related to Morrison and Morton. I don't have my notes with as to the name of the Company that produced these brands, among others, but it was not Eclipse. See threads on various boards related to Morrison, Morton, Marathon etc....

Phil


Thanks Phil. I'm leaning in your direction. Will snoop around.

ticoun, the Marxton's I've seen just have the name in a Helvetica-ish font on the clip. Early on Eclipse used a logo in the shape of a football with vertical lines in it. These have no markings like that.

Thanks Linda. Glad you like them.

Dan

well, i've seen one like this, but it might not have been a marxton. i'll try to find it again.

In Topic: Miracle and Marathon

21 January 2012 - 09:56 PM

i do think these look Eclipse sub brands. the clip is like the pre 1923 Eclipse clip, and the wreath was used on Eclipse sub brands like Marxton.

In Topic: The Eclipse Thread

09 January 2012 - 08:36 PM

I might own the following Eclipse (pens buried everywhere... who know where?) as it as shot in my home double light-box, not done on the road. Probably turned up in one of the pen hoards purchased. The hooded nib suggests late production, some weak attempt to emulate the Parker 51.

But, there is something else... interesting... about this pen.

Care to identify the charming quirk?

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regards

David


lemme guess. the Hooded Knight was a button filler, and was only produced in solid colors.

In Topic: Birth of the Balance. First Style OS Balance Collection.

07 January 2012 - 11:22 PM

Is this the prototype:
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There's a marbled blue with white streaks pen with truncated ends on the left,
a jade green golf pencil with a red tail,
and a marbled blue/jade green rod

The pic is on the Sheaffer Pen Museum thread on this board.


thanks Pedro, it's the pen i was talking about. that celluloid would have been gorgeous on a Balance imo.

In Topic: Birth of the Balance. First Style OS Balance Collection.

06 January 2012 - 08:10 PM


there were blue balances, but for one year only, and only on non white dot pens. but it's true that a lapis with the same pattern as jade would have been stunning.




Hello ticoun, et al.

Yep. The documented Sheaffer Balance in blue is a neat thing, though-- as you suggest-- it pulls us away from both first style pens and from OS pens. It might have been made more than a year, but it was not a long production color and it was offered as Balance only as third tier long-slender and petite sizes. I agree too with an earlier note that a Lapis Blue along lines of Parker's Duofold or Wahl's "Deco Band" would have been something grand in an OS extra-long first style Balance.


Too, there is a striped blue Balance (presumably mid-late 1930's) part of a prototype collection I've seen. That pen might be in Lambrou's FPOTW as well.

We've had a couple killer threads on Blue Balance here at FPB. Those who are interested I refer to:

3 page discussion of blue Balance showing all pens and pencils, showing the scarce blue truncated non-Balance Sheaffer Junior, and showing rarely seen (not in catalogues) Sheaffer documentation for the pen LINK:

Balance Blue Eye Candy

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regards

David


the Sheaffer museum also has a taper top prototype in a blue and white swirl celluloid that would have been very nice on the balance and later pens. (Pedro has posted the pic on FPN)

BTW, your link doesn't work.