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Finally.....
Dec. 19th, 2012 08:01 pma pen post.
Two years ago, perhaps 2.5, I brought 4 pens in to be restored. I had gotten a couple of Parker vacumatics on auction that both needed new diaphragms and I lacked the tools and the acumen to do the repair myself. I had my first Sheaffer snorkel and I had picked up a Wearever that had been mislabeled on its auction as being a "Weaver". How could I pass that one up? It was before I learned how to do simple repairs myself.
I had won an auction for a pretty little hard black rubber Waterman, a woman's pen made to hang on a chain, circa 1920, from a seller who turned out to be on the far side of the county. I asked him who did his restorations, he told me that he did his own. Turns out in his day, he had been a pen salesman at a high end stationery in NYC. I decided to pick up that pen, and I brought him the 4 that needed work.
He told me he'd call when they were ready. Well, he never called.
I lost his address.
I figured the pens were gone for good.
Well, imagine my surprise when a small package arrived this morning with 4 restored pens inside. Both the Vacumatics circa 1946 were not only working, but had ink in them. The Wearever, which he said was not worth restoring, turns out to have a lovely 14K fine point nib, and given what has happened to the price of gold, probably is now worth the restoration cost. The Sheaffer is also a fine point, silver palladium triumph nib, and these pens sip ink. I'm disappointed it's not a gold nib, but I know so much more now about these than I did back at the time, and both the touch down and the snorkel fillers with the triumph style nibs are worth having.
Two years ago, perhaps 2.5, I brought 4 pens in to be restored. I had gotten a couple of Parker vacumatics on auction that both needed new diaphragms and I lacked the tools and the acumen to do the repair myself. I had my first Sheaffer snorkel and I had picked up a Wearever that had been mislabeled on its auction as being a "Weaver". How could I pass that one up? It was before I learned how to do simple repairs myself.
I had won an auction for a pretty little hard black rubber Waterman, a woman's pen made to hang on a chain, circa 1920, from a seller who turned out to be on the far side of the county. I asked him who did his restorations, he told me that he did his own. Turns out in his day, he had been a pen salesman at a high end stationery in NYC. I decided to pick up that pen, and I brought him the 4 that needed work.
He told me he'd call when they were ready. Well, he never called.
I lost his address.
I figured the pens were gone for good.
Well, imagine my surprise when a small package arrived this morning with 4 restored pens inside. Both the Vacumatics circa 1946 were not only working, but had ink in them. The Wearever, which he said was not worth restoring, turns out to have a lovely 14K fine point nib, and given what has happened to the price of gold, probably is now worth the restoration cost. The Sheaffer is also a fine point, silver palladium triumph nib, and these pens sip ink. I'm disappointed it's not a gold nib, but I know so much more now about these than I did back at the time, and both the touch down and the snorkel fillers with the triumph style nibs are worth having.
