Product Description
Type vintage eyedropper fountain pen with a flexible stub nib.
Product Name Model 200. There's more below about the possibilities.
Manufacturer and Year Mabie Todd & Co., New York -- circa 1910s
Length 5-1/2" long
Filling System Eyedropper pen. It has been tested and cleaned. It is working well with no leaks. (We will enclose instructions and an eyedropper kit.)
Color Black chased hard rubber (BCHR). The chasing has a wavy/rippled pattern on the barrel, but the cap is smooth.
Nib FLEXIBLE OBLIQUE 14k Mabie Todd #2 New York nib. It's a left-foot oblique, really smooth and flexible. See the writing sample below.
Condition Excellent condition. The pen looks great with only slight fading, and for its age the imprints and chasing look great. The barrel chasing is slightly worn but still easily visible and no real scratch marks. The section has some small scratches, but nothing that impairs the pen's performance. The cap does not have any chasing or even remainders of chasing that we can make out. The cap imprint is slightly faded in the middle, but the swan can still be seen.
NOTE: We're a little uncertain about the exact model of this pen. There are several imprints pointing at different possibilities. The cap has a line saying "1500" below the Swan logo. There's an imprint on the section that says "Swan 200", and then the end of the barrel has 2 lines that say "20/" or perhaps "201" with "OBL" on the second line. The OBL surely refers to the oblique nib. Checking in Stephen Hull's book "The Swan Pen", we do see models 200 and 1500 referenced, but it's unclear whether this pen is either of those. We cannot find any reference to a model 201, but the book does show some pricing of various models, and we believe that there's a possibility that the imprint on the end of the barrel is actually a price of "20/", which we think would be 20 shillings and 0 pence.
There is also the possibility that the cap is not original to the pen, making the 1500 a red herring.
