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Vintage Pens - Parker Vacumatic Successor
This vintage pen is a 1946 Parker VS “Vacumatic Successor” Mark I button filler in Dark Blue. Brushed Lustraloy (stainless steel) cap. An excellent pen, but it failed in the marketplace as the publ...
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Vintage Pens - Parker Student Victory Prototype
These 1955 prototypes are Parker Student "Victory" cartridge/converter-fillers - one in White with brushed Lustraloy stainless steel cap, and one in Grey with the same cap. Both feature a dimpled g...
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Vintage Pens - Waterman #7 Yellow
This special vintage pen is a 1930 Waterman #7 "Yellow Banded" lever-filler in Red Ripple with the "Yellow " cap band and corresponding nib. The Yellow nib is described as: medium “rounded, writes ...
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Vintage Pen Sheaffer Targa Black Matte
This special vintage pen is a Sheaffer 1980 Targa #1003 cartridge/converter-fill in Black Matte, including the cap top (later versions had a gold-plated cap-top). The trim is gold-plated, and the p...
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The vintage pen here is the 1950 Centropen/Rippet Barclay 1304/809 in a #4 size Vac-fill, in 835 Coin Silver with alternating wave-chased and Barley panels. CP clip. This is a high-quality pen made...
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Vintage Pens Soennecken Safety
Soennecken pens, no longer in production today, was founded by Freidrich Soennecken in 1875. While they sold a vast array of office products, they are most famous for the pen (his main invention is...
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Extraordinary Vintage Pens Tri-Pen Manufacturing Co.
The Extraordinary Vintage Pen here is the 1930 Tri-Pen Mfg. Co.- item #17 pictured above. This is a #4 in the Black & Pearl finish. The company previously produced triangular shaped pencils...
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Extraordinary Vintage Pens La Plume d’Or/Pullman Meteore
This is a 1932 Meteore (Pullman) #1 BF in Black Hard Rubber over a brass lining. Unsigned cap and barrel, other than "PATENT" on clip. Correct “D & D Paris 18 Cts 1” nib (Demley & Degan wer...
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Extraordinary Vintage Pens Pullman #2
This 1932 Pullman is a Pullman #2 BF in Octagonal Double-laminated gold-filled. Clip signed “Patent” and “Pullman.” Center of cap in “Checkerboard” pattern, the rest of the pen in “Barley” pattern....
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Extraordinary Vintage Pens Mabie Todd Jackdaw Toledo
This 1920 Mabie Todd is a "Jackdaw" Toledo lever-filler in Damascened-inlay overlay on Woodgrain Hard Rubber. Damascening is the art of hand inlaying different metals into one another, typically, 2...
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