The 1944 Eversharp Skyline 14 karat solid gold Command Performance sold for US $75.00, many multiples of the US $5.00 price of the popular striped cap plastic models. Solid gold models representing the top of a pen line really came to the fore in the 1940s. These became the dream pens, costing many multiples of the base model. The base pen would be redone in solid gold, including the cap, barrel, and clip, and in some pens, the section, lever, and other secondary parts as well. Over the last hundred years, pen manufacturers crowned their lines with solid gold or solid gold overlay pens, often derived from their leading lines. As the fountain pen developed, jewelers lavished elaborate gold overlays on these hard rubber holders and the relationship was cemented. Many early pen makers made only nibs and contracted for "holders," initially a stem for dipping, and eventually a reservoir for ink. The same qualities that attract jewelers to gold, a tarnish free and easily shaped material, made it an ideal material for pen nibs, called simply "pens" in the late nineteenth century. Gold and pens were linked even before fountain pens were common. The royalty of pens often carry regal names, like Masterpiece, Presidential, and Command Performance, indicating not only the significance of the pen, but the status of the owner. Every top line pen manufacturer has produced a flagship model in solid gold. Gold, while not the costliest of precious metals, is the king. Phileas Fogg I think is a character in a novel…I’ll have to look it up…but it sure is NOT an old man’s pen! :-) Hope you get yours to be less “cheeky,” perhaps.Įnjoy reading here – glad you tried a Waterman.Waterman Man 100 Specimen Top Of The Line The third one I still use, although right now I am entranced with my won-free-on-the-internet from Fountain Pen Revolution the Moti… But Waterman pens have for me always written more smoothly and never ever leaked - unlike two Mont blancs I have been given, and which still stain my fingers and I can’t figure out quite why. Enter the Phileas Fogg (or is it Phogg) fountain pen, of which I own several…one finepoint was absolutely perfect until I let a nasty 12 year-old try it out and she mangled the nib.she said she knew how to write with them…she didn’t…and my two others? The medium point hit the ground nib first and broke off one of the nib pieces. It was an inexpensive brushed chrome one that I loved so much, so smoothly did it write, that I carried it everywhere in my pockets…until one day a hole wore through somewhere on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village, NYC and I lost it.
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