Vintage Pen Info

CONDITIONS: You’ll find that most of our Vintage pens are Near Mint to Mint. This is not a coincidence – we try to find and sell the best vintage pens we can find. The following is our key to condition, and the abbreviations we use. M Mint No signs at all of use NM Near Mint Slightest signs of use EX Excellent Imprints good, writes well, looks great ExF Extra Fine One of the following: some brassing, some darkening, …

There is no industry standard for characterizing the flexibility of fountain pen nibs. To help the users of our website we have developed the following 5 point flexibility scale. There are no definitive lines of demarcation where one grade stops and another takes over, but an amount of overlap, especially since there is so much difference in the “hand” of fountain pen users (the amount of force or pressure used during normal writing), even for …

Vintage Pens Repair & Restoration Vintage Pen Appraisal   Vintage Pens Repair & Restoration With very rare exception, we no longer offer a pen repair service, other than for warrantee repairs for the pens we sell. Vintage Pens Repair Pricing A typical vintage pen repair includes disassembly, ultrasonic cleaning of component, rebuilding the filling system with new replaceable parts (i.e., bladder, diaphragm, seals, gaskets, etc.), reassembly, nib smoothing, polishing and testing.  The price varies from US $50.00  to …