Product Description
Type Fountain pen and pencil set, in original box
Product Name Gold Seal.
Manufacturer and Year Wahl, USA - 1920s
Length The pen is full length at 5-1/4", and the pencil is 5-5/16" long. This is the standard verson, in between the oversized and the slender full length mdels
Filling System The pen fills via the lever system. We have installed a new sac and tested the pen and it's working very well. The pencil takes 1.1mm leads, which are extended by twisting the end cap.
Color Coral celluloid (red with yellow swirls) with black ends. The trim is gold filled.
Nib This nib is marked "Eversharp Gold Seal Flexible," and the feed is marked with a B. The nib is in excellent condition, very symmetrical in terms of wear, with good tipping material. Please see our writing sample.
Condition Excellent condition. There is light handwear, but both pieces are really quite shiny and striking in the hand. The fountain pen has faint horizontal marks from capping. The clip has some plating wear along the sides, and there are small areas of brassing on the cap rings. The lever bar also has light brassing and plating wear on the high points. There is the faintest bit of darkening underneath where the cap fits onto the barrel, but overall the color is very bright and uniform. The very front edge of the section, near the nib, has some chipping, but this should not affect the pen's performance. Gold Seal is present and intact. The pencil is also lovely, with uniformly bright color. The blind cap has a lot of shallow bite marks, and the ring that's adjacent to the end finial has plating wear and brassing. The sides of the clip have plating wear, and there is a ring of brassing where the ball end contacts the pencil barrel. The two gold bands nearest the nose cone have brassing, and the nose cone has is also brassed, as well as has some pitting. The set comes packaged in a cardboard Wahl-Eversharp box, which is in great condition. There is some wear on the edges, but it's overall quite clean and in better shape than we'll probably be when we're nearing 100 years old!