I would just like to say

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Hippo said:
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Now that I was able to read the blurb, that is not true, they only used ally cos of a shortage of steel. just after the war.
Who remembers the "Coal and Steel Community"? which became the big 6 which became the Common Market, which became the EEC.....

"First used out of necessity due to a shortage of steel after WWII, Land Rover's serendipitous use of use aluminium has stuck: five of their seven series of vehicles are aluminium bodied."
 
 
... that you never know what you are going to find in a mixed lot from an auction.
I checked it out and was primarily interested in two automatic watches.
Once I'd seen they were worth bidding on Iooked at the rest of the lot and whata mixed lot it was.
A nice jewellers box containing gold buttons and rings to fit them to an evening shirt, the buttons have enamelled centres.
Useless to me but still nice.
A black, quite long but not stupidly long, lady's cigarette holder and a rather worn but obviously once expensive soft leather case/etui for it, it also has a very slim ring with some kind of stones in it.
Again useless!
and a Parker pen missing its clip.

Now this latter is heavy and it only took a moment to see that it is made of silver with gold fill.
Turns out to be a top of the range Parker 75 Vermeil.
and I'd have thrown it out if W hadn't stopped me!
There is a website devoted to the Parker 75 so I may be able to get the clip as a spare part and also, if I want it, the ink convertor as that is missing though it would write fine with a cartridge.
There is also a slight ding in the barrel which I could probably knock back out with a ball bearing of the right size or soemthing similar. Silver being soft maybe just the back end of a twist drill, going up the sizes.
Worth doing maybe as they are worth a bit.

I quite like fountain pens. W once bought me a Cross one and that is lovely though I have to confess I never dared use it in anger despite buying a bottle of red ink to use it for work!

When I was a student an American relation of one of my flatmates and I were talking about pens and I said I had always wanted one with an italic nib. He grinned and said he had one! Next time he came over (we only saw him twice) he brought it with him and it turned out to be a Parker as well. He gifted it to me. Un believably generous and it sure does write nicely.
Never bothered to research the model or anything.

Guess what, just had a look for it. Found others and even a Cross I had forgotten I had, bought cheapish at an antiques market thing, again with abust clip,but with a curious clear nib.

But can't find the Parker.

Enjoy the rest of the afternoon, I am off for a Jab. Covid I think!
 
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Stanleysteamer said:
Maybe someone can explain why I can only open these by replying to them and then opening them in my reply?
Flipping tech!
Have to admit I don't usually have problems opening stuff on 'ere.
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Eye have seen the same where yer can't see it on the forum, but reply to a post wivvit and yer see it in the reply box. It must be somefink to do wiv how the forum displays stuff, and yer phooter decodes it fer viewing. Happens for a day or two then back to normal.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Now that I was able to read the blurb, that is not true, they only used ally cos of a shortage of steel. just after the war.
Who remembers the "Coal and Steel Community"? which became the big 6 which became the Common Market, which became the EEC.....

"First used out of necessity due to a shortage of steel after WWII, Land Rover's serendipitous use of use aluminium has stuck: five of their seven series of vehicles are aluminium bodied."
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There's many different stories about this. The one eye favour came from LR. Post war steel was rationed. They got all they could and wanted it for use buildering rover cars. Aluminium was more easily available so they used that.

There's a lot of myths like tratters being built as a stop gap when post war sales of rover cars was low. The time and effort to get tratter production going couldn't justify only a few years production. But the myths will continue.
 
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