The predecessor of this pen was the flat-topped wartime 2060. The change to a torpedo shape is purely aesthetic – same huge nib, same innards. Indeed, if this pen had a number it would also be 2060. The number guy was off work that day. He’d been off quite a lot. Hangovers. His superiors were keeping an eye on the situation.
It really is all about appearance. Both pens feel similar in the hand. They’re big with a lot of girth, very comfortable to use.
This was a bank manager’s pen. Not only did he refuse your loan application, he sneered at your little pen while doing so. They’re all small compared with this one. Unless you were the rare person that came in with the Swan with the No 8 nib. In which case he would definitely be intimidated into granting your loan.
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Ahem, I have trouble imagining a scenario in which the owner of a #8 Swan needs a loan … except perhaps to refinance the loan he took out to acquire the beast?…
The proud owner of the pen with the No 8 nib attended in his underwear because he’d spent all his money and couldn’t afford a suit.
Surely this is the new post-war shape for the leverless and therefore a 4660?
Hi David,
If you use the search facility you’ll see that I have covered this model of pen before. Same shape, size and nib and it bore the number 2060.
I can confirm that, I have a pen that looks identical to the one in Deb’s pictures and It has the 2060 number stamped on the base of the barrel. Must have been processed during a day that the numbers guy was sober.
David, I’ll try to research this further when I can – I have to go out shortly for the rest of the day. The one 4060 I have found in a cursory search online appears to have a No 2 nib.
The last time I met my bank manager, I was towing her truck out of a snow bank at the side of the road. I should have gone in for that loan the day after!
That’s on the assumption that bank managers feel gratitude like human beings.
Ah, so true.