News — Vintage Fountain Pen

The Sheaffer Prelude Rainbow, although not a vintage pen is certain to be a much sought after collectors item.  This is a really, really glamorous pen, Sheaffer did not make a great number of Prelude Rainbows and they are becoming very hard to find.  This one is brand new, never inked and only handled, carefully, for the photographs.  Not a lot to say, just look at it!!!  

I don't usually have much to do with ballpoints but this Aurora Magellano, I think from around 1990s came into my possession and I was very impressed with the high quality 'feel' of the thing.  I bet the Aurora fountain pens are a bit special.

I bought this from a collector, it just looked like an interesting old pen. It looks like a 1930 ish lever filler.     But it appears as if it might be an eye dropper conversion.  It has a see through window, a screw on blind cap at the end of the barrel but it also has a press bar ink filler.  When you look through the ink window all you see is the aluminium sleeve, not the ink level.  I can see no other reason why it has an ink window and a blind cap.  The pen fills well and...

This is a lovely big, handsome pen in Black with Gold trim.  At 16 cm. posted it doesn't sound that big, but it is quite 'fat' and it has a huge nib which adds to the feeling of an unusually large pen.  It has a box lever filler and what is often called an 'art deco' clip with that big nib that just says 'Waterman Emblem Pen'.  Its a super writer, flexing from fine to broad, and very smooth.  There is no barrel imprint but it says 'Waterman's made in U.S.A.' on the cap.  I don't think it ever had...