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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.

This version of the Burnham B48 from around 1952 was fitted with a screw in, interchangeable nib assembly.  The nib itself is a Gold Plated steel nib with almost all of the plating lost.  The tip is fashioned by folding the ends of the tines to make a writing point.  This particular nib is a Burnham B45 Broad nib, very smooth and, I would think, very durable.  This would have been an important selling point at a time when fountain pens were used extensively in a business environment. 

Although not marketed as a 'Conway Stewart Lady' this little pen has often been compared to the small Parker.  The odd thing is that, when capped the Conway is about 1 cm. shorter than the Parker but it is ever so slightly longer when posted for writing.  The Parker Lady is quite a bit 'fatter' than the Dinkie.  I have read that the Conway Stewart 560 was only produced from 1962 to 1963 to replace the 550 but,in the brilliant 'Fountain pens of the World' Andreas Lambrou dates the pen from 1955, I'll go with Andreas.

The Myers Supa pen is a very interesting old pen in that it doesn't look that old, at first glance.  The main reason for this is, I think, that it is made of chrome plated metal.  If it were Black hard rubber you would immediately say it looks like a nineteen twenties pen.  It is a chrome plated cylindrical tube with a nib section, lever system and cylindrical push fit cap.  It resembles a slimmed down early Sheaffer no-nonsense pen in some respects.  The really great thing about this pen is how it writes, or would do in more capable...