my two passions......

Doogy

darkside gold, and 1940's Sheaffer Autographs (fountain pens/pencils with solid 14k trim). Anyone else have a passion for pens?



Doug

Aethelred

I also like nice pens, nothing specific, just nice pens.

bballboy

so... much... gooooooold

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Anyone else have a passion for pens? >>

No, but that is sure a bedazzling array of gold.

rhound1977

I have a lot of Hotel pens and no gold coins

Stork

Nice hoard! Hey, I think there's a piece of litesidegold mixed in there.... I like the gold, but I've never had a thing for pens. I guess it's because in my line of work pens are always getting up and walking away. Alot. I don't think I ever start and end the day using the same pen (at least now so much is computerized now it's not as bad as it used to be).


Cathy

Preussen

<< <i>Anyone else have a passion for pens? >>



I use them all the time to write checks to pay for coins - Preussen

b.t.w. Nice display (in your pic)

worldcoinguy

I can't say I know a thing about pens, but the composition of the photos looks real nice!

Refrema

I also have a passion for pens. I have several hundred mostly Fountain Pens, or very unusual both very old, and new. I also enjoy limited editions by Visconte & Delta.

Actually I have spent more on a single pen, than I have for a single coin. My upper limit for a coin has been $2,000, but I spent 2,200 for a pen. I did bid once on a coin for 5,000 dollars, but it went for 6,500.

I guess I am not the only crazy one

Bob

Cladiator

Very cool Doogy! Gold is fun in any form isn't it?

It's funny, I just treated myself to an early Christmas present of a matching Sheaffer 22K gold pen/pencil set the other day. I'll have to photo them with some Darkside gold....when I eventually own some Darkside gold that is haha.

What's the story behind the Autograph pens?

Doogy

<< <i>Very cool Doogy! Gold is fun in any form isn't it?

It's funny, I just treated myself to an early Christmas present of a matching Sheaffer 22K gold pen/pencil set the other day. I'll have to photo them with some Darkside gold....when I eventually own some Darkside gold that is haha.

What's the story behind the Autograph pens? >>



gold is indeed beautiful in many forms! the story behind the Sheaffer Autographs was that they were the higher end Sheaffer offerings of their day. You may have noticed that most vintage (and modern) pens are showing "brassing" of their gold plated trim. This is because the gold plating has worn through, and shows the brass metal below it. The Autographs/Signatures came upon the scene in this configuration in the early 1940s. The cap and barrel are plastic, (most pens then and today are still plastic of some sort) while the gold trim is just that, solid 14k gold. They had the '14k' hallmarks on the capbands, clips and many times even the filler levers were solid. The pencils were the same way; clips, cap bands and even the pencil tip were hallmarked 14k. The sets retailed for $35 (FP and pencil), quite a sum of money for pens in those days. Most were purchased as high end gifts, or used by business executives and such. The Autograph/Signature (depending on the cap band width) was such that you could pay extra to send the set back to Sheaffer where they had amazing engravers on staff that could actually engrave your personal signature on the wide gold cap band. by including a card with your signature on it, they could duplicate it by hand.
To my knowledge, the only more expensive Sheaffers during this era were the 'Masterpiece' (solid 14k cap and barrel) and the 'Crest Masterpiece' (plastic barrel with solid 14k cap). They even made a very small run of 'Crest Masterpieces' in plastic barrels with pure platinum caps. i'll bet those fetch a few thousand when they turn up for sale.


here is a really cool and insightful article by the Sheaffer forum moderator, and Sheaffer nut:

http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferAutographPens.htm

Cladiator

<< <i>here is a really cool and insightful article by the Sheaffer forum moderator, and Sheaffer nut: >>

That's too funny! That is the guy that I just bought my gold pen/pencil set from.

coinkat

pens are interesting... I never bought any older ones that have collector value.