Product Description
Type Fountain pen
Product Name Gaston's Bulls and Bears. This is a two pen model Jim Gaston commissioned from Bexley. 100 of each pen was made with the first 25 numbers reserved for boxed sets consisting of one Bull and one Bear. This is one of the sets. #12/100
Manufacturer and Year Bexley, USA -- 2001.
Length The Bear is 5-1/4 and the Bull is 5-1/16"
Filling System Both takes international cartridges and converters. A piston converter is installed in each.
Color The Bear is made of dark red brown woodgrain ebonite and the Bull is made of orange "red" woodgrain ebonite. They both have two narrow gold plated cap bands with a black band in between and a gold barrel band near a step down at the end of the barrel for posting.
Nib BROAD 18k nibs. Each nib is marked Bexley and is two-tone. They each have a B on the face of the nib to identify the size. The Bull pen has a #5 nib and the Bear pen has a #6 nib.
Condition Near Mint condition. Both pens look unused with no evidence of ink anywhere. It's possible that these pens have never been used. They ship in a large lacquer finished wooden box for display and with paperwork. Each pen has its own guarantee. Please note that the imprints are rather rough and not crisp, due to some extra material around the edges of the imprint. This can clearly be seen in the photos.
