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#38560 My new Montblanc 138 repair. Now is going straight to the collection
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on 26 November 2014 - 01:36 AM
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OTHER EUROPEAN and ASIAN PENS
#37484 Modern vs Vintage
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on 26 September 2014 - 01:35 PM
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OTHER EUROPEAN and ASIAN PENS
Vintage of course! <3
#37439 Parker VP Flighter: does it exist?
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on 23 September 2014 - 12:31 AM
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PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
Fascinating stuff. The photos are very compelling. Even if it turns out to not have come from Parker, it's a very cool barrel and looks decently made. (But I've a soft spot for VPs). Very nice find!
#35868 Poor Packaging SMASHES Rare 51
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on 14 July 2014 - 02:22 AM
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PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
Is there any hope - any hope at all - of repair?
#35835 Parker Vacumatic Neon Store Sign
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on 10 July 2014 - 05:55 AM
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PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
Could you post a video? Would be cool to see the sign, lighted up and moving and all.
#35809 Gold Bond by Waterman
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on 08 July 2014 - 04:45 AM
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Post Your Pen Finds
Very cool addition to a 94 collection. Congrats!
#35808 Asian Parker 51 vacumatic clone
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on 08 July 2014 - 04:45 AM
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PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
I can read the article. Am translating it in bits, whenever I can grab some spare time. Will update when I can.
#35807 SS Australian Imperial 826
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on 08 July 2014 - 04:44 AM
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SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
<3 the barleycorn /swoon
#35806 Finds From The Road...
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on 08 July 2014 - 04:33 AM
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Post Your Pen Finds
A bit late to the party but - congrats on the find!
#35752 Asian Parker 51 vacumatic clone
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on 03 July 2014 - 12:27 AM
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PARKER: (USA "Big Five")
Characters read "Wing Sung” (Yong3 Sheng1 in hanyupinyin). Still in business.
Check out the ad in this Chinese article. It also offers a brief history of well-known China pen brands including Wing Sung: http://www.zgsc2001.com/zp/447.html
#35472 SS Australian Imperial 826
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on 18 June 2014 - 12:54 AM
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SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Sweet. Lately I've developed a yen for the sterling silver models, beginning with an 834 
#35314 Waterman 94 Persian
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on 11 June 2014 - 12:12 AM
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Post Your Pen Finds
Very nicely done Thanks for sharing!
#35275 '70's Sheaffer Imperial
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on 10 June 2014 - 02:09 AM
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SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
An 835!
#35119 Australian gold plated Imperials
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on 30 May 2014 - 12:50 AM
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SHEAFFER (USA "Big Five")
Thanks for posting! Not much info online about Australian-made Sheaffers so this really helps
#35118 Parker 51 Rolled Silver
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on 30 May 2014 - 12:26 AM
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BRITISH PENS
Didn't know that existed to begin with. Thanks for sharing
#34715 Ebay shipping cost record?
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on 24 April 2014 - 12:46 AM
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Elements of Collecting: Hunting, Valuing and Polemicizing
High shipping costs? See 'em all the time - I'm in Singapore. Small city-state south of Malaysia. Not many vintage pens 
#34322 Wahl Two-Tone All Metal Pen
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on 31 March 2014 - 03:32 AM
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Post Your Pen Finds
Congrats! Beautiful pen
#33899 Weird nib
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on 10 March 2014 - 01:13 AM
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Elements of Collecting: Hunting, Valuing and Polemicizing
Here it is - http://members3.boar...1390704944.html
Overbury just calls it a "one of a kind" nib. The pen is item #9.
#33876 Weird nib
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on 08 March 2014 - 02:17 PM
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Elements of Collecting: Hunting, Valuing and Polemicizing
Ah found the pen. In one of Stephen Overbury's lots in Jan 2014.
#33092 Disassembling a Wahl Oxford Twist Filler
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on 05 February 2014 - 01:07 AM
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R & R: (Repair and Restoration)
If it helps, Syd Saperstein once described how he repaired one --
#31589 Conway Stewarts - levers 180 deg from nibs?
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on 01 January 2014 - 04:21 PM
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BRITISH PENS
Is it true that CS pens had their "levers aligned on the underside, 180° away from the nib surface"?
Came across this on one of Binder's websites (http://www.richardsp...replacement.htm).
Came across this on one of Binder's websites (http://www.richardsp...replacement.htm).
#31209 Last & First
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on 30 December 2013 - 02:31 AM
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What's New in Your Life
Sounds like the store owner deserved what he got.
#30802 Bexley
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on 27 December 2013 - 03:14 AM
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USA "Other": Bexley; Cross; Esterbrook; Carter, Chilton, Moore, Leboeuf, Dunn, Triad, etc.
Very nice, that ebonite Duofold Centennial
#30634 Pilot Custom Series
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on 23 December 2013 - 02:32 AM
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OTHER EUROPEAN and ASIAN PENS
And the nibs!
