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Stanleysteamer said:
... 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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Mrs DG bort us boys a Cross Millennium a tis vairy gude tu write wiv. Vairy near us ole Parker 45 which spaniels munched. Us boys allus writes in turk wise ink zo twas eezy tu find culprit.
 
.... that changing the cambelt on the Pluriel is proving a nightmare and I haven't even lifted the bonnet yet!:rolleyes:

Quite apart from the constant interruptions and stuff I have had to do for others, including ferrying W to her Tai-Chi and back, the printer repair guy has just turned up to finish the job, we hope, of stopping intermittent black lines on printout from our Brother laser copier.
So I cannot get into the study where I had got myself ensconced to photocopy all the blasted bits of the Haynes for the car.
So much of "as in section 3 subparagrah 9 of chapter 6" interspersed with stuff to do with the single cam engine, and about three different variations of methods of tensioning the aux belt as well as the cam belt. I will need to collate it all and put it in order to be sure I don't have to faff about in the book with oily gloves.

They expect me to take the cambelt sprockets off, why??? Just to clean the flippers? To remove some cover or other and I'm blowed if I can remember why I have to do that.Plus I have to make possibly two special tools.

Threw a bit of a fit over all this this morning. Never done one which was so stupidly fiddly.
Hey ho!
Enjoy the rest of your day folks!:):):)
 
DevonGuy said:
Mrs DG bort us boys a Cross Millennium a tis vairy gude tu write wiv. Vairy near us ole Parker 45 which spaniels munched. Us boys allus writes in turk wise ink zo twas eezy tu find culprit.
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It took me ages of searching to find that mine is a Cross Townsend, and yep it do write boodiful!
I also found another Cross I forgot I had acquired with a glass or perspex nib. Tres weird.
Any special reason for the turquoise?
I likes blue/black meeself!
I'll now Google Cross Millenium to have a butchers at it!
;):)
 
DevonGuy said:
Mrs DG bort us boys a Cross Millennium a tis vairy gude tu write wiv. Vairy near us ole Parker 45 which spaniels munched. Us boys allus writes in turk wise ink zo twas eezy tu find culprit.
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Having had a look on your online, and a very nice instrument it is too!
I then scurried off to make sure.
Yes, W did indeed buy mine for me in ...2000!
Wot a co-hincidence!:);)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
It took me ages of searching to find that mine is a Cross Townsend, and yep it do write boodiful!
I also found another Cross I forgot I had acquired with a glass or perspex nib. Tres weird.
Any special reason for the turquoise?
I likes blue/black meeself!
I'll now Google Cross Millenium to have a butchers at it!
;):)
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Cuz twuz different. And eezier tu read in my view.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
It took me ages of searching to find that mine is a Cross Townsend, and yep it do write boodiful!
I also found another Cross I forgot I had acquired with a glass or perspex nib. Tres weird.
Any special reason for the turquoise?
I likes blue/black meeself!
I'll now Google Cross Millenium to have a butchers at it!
;):)
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Back when IBM was still a proper company (cos' I was in it).... they decreed that all salesmen should have a fountain pen to sign contracts with (or to offer the customer to sign the contract with). They dished out "IBM Logo'd" Schaeffer fountain pens to us all.
Gold electroplated and all. :) I still have mine, but have never really used it.
 
DanClarke said:
My Father always wrote in turquoise ink. He had a wonderful cursive script. Me? I am the left-handed drunken spider that fell in the inkpot. :D
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Us farther used a Parker 45 laike us boys but used Parker royal blue. He too had a lovely fist which I long emulated but then he would, he was a design engineer in the old days of drawing boards and T squares.
 
DanClarke said:
Back when IBM was still a proper company (cos' I was in it).... they decreed that all salesmen should have a fountain pen to sign contracts with (or to offer the customer to sign the contract with). They dished out "IBM Logo'd" Schaeffer fountain pens to us all.
Gold electroplated and all. :) I still have mine, but have never really used it.
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In my first 2 years in junior skool we were taught italic writing. (for some unknown reason). My mum said my writing standard was good. Left handed kids needed a cranked pen nib to do it. Skool pens had what was called a reservoir nib which held enough ink to write a short sentence before needing to dip it back in the inkwell. Every kid aspired to own a fountain pen, if I remember right the weapon of choice was a Platignum or an Osmiroid pen. Then I changed skools when the family moved to a new area, and had to un-learn italic and get up to speed with cursive. Never really got the hang of it.
 
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