Unnamed bakelite pen with a Rupp nib

A restoration from this weekend. An unnamed French (?) pen c. 1940 in Bakelite with gold plated trims. This is a fairly large button filler pen. It needed a new sac and only a light clean and polish.

It sports a steel nib with an imprint of a lion within a circle with the words Iridium Tipped surrounding it and looks to be a Rupp nib. (From what I have been able to find out, Georg Peter Rupp was a nib maker in Heidelberg from 1920's to 1970.)

 

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Sheaffer Lifetime Green Jade

A Sheaffer Lifetime white dot in jade green. Conflicting specifications of the pen makes it difficult for me to fix a date to it. I would say this pen is from sometime in the late '30s. It's the flat top Lifetime with the white dot on the top of the cap. It also has the later deep multi-finned feed design.

The colour has obviously faded. The trims also shows considerably plating loss, especially the cap ring. When I got this pen it needed a service and restoration. Decades of dried ink had to be removed and a new sac has to be put in. Unfortunately I didn't have the proper sized sac for this large pen so a slightly smaller one (#18) had been used.

 

It had a lovely large nib which writes smoothly but with considerable feedback.

 

Edit: I'm told this pen is sometime from between 1924 to 1928 as it has a single cap band. From 1928 onward till 1934 approximately they had dual cap bands. The feed is from later on, from '38 or '39, possibly a later replacement.

 

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A French Parker Vacumatic

This is a French Parker Vacumatic, in opaque black. It sports a simple Parker 18 carat nib and is a speedline filler. The barrel markings are around the barrel just below the threads (and reads 'Parker Made in France') and not along the length of the barrel as is seen usually. The nib itself is soft but feedbacky (may need some adjustment) and has a good amount of flex.

I'm not sure when it was manufactured since the speed-line filler would indicate latest during the war which seems unlikely. The shape of the pen itself reminds me of the later Duofold NS. Is it possible that it dates from the late 40s or early 50s? There is a squarish dot between the words 'Parker' and 'Made in France'. I cannot make out if it's a date marking or a blemish. 

 

A very unusual and unique pen for me!

 

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