Please see the very informative update to the Ingersoll post.

I wrote about English-made Ingersoll pens once before, back here: http://wp.me/p17T6K-3T.  That post gives some of the background to these mysterious pens.

This pen appears to have been made later, perhaps the nineteen-fifties, or maybe it’s just the superb condition that makes it appear later than it is. It has the curious mid-cap fitting for the clip, but that gives no clue as it appears from time to time from the nineteen-twenties on.  The chunky section with a decided step harks back to that earlier model.

The rather splendid warranted nib is unusual.  I read somewhere (can’t remember where) that some later Ingersolls were made by Wyvern.  Wyvern had their own nib-making capability and may have made such a nib.

In any case, it’s an attractive and very unusual pen.

 

Edit:  With thanks to Simon (Waudok)

This picture shows why I think Ingersoll’s were made by Wyvern. The 3 on the left are Ingersolls, the other 5 are all Wyverns. I have quite a few of this model Wyvern in these 5 colours but with different cap band configurations, and also shorter pens. I also have this model as a Kenbar (store pen for Barkers of Kensington), The City Pen from Spooners of Plymouth and some other advertising pens such as Earle’s Cement. I think I also saw one called a Regent pen on the Melbourne Pens site a few years ago.

The model names change over the years, I think the earliest is the Wyvern No 60, Clutch Selfil-Safety, Pat151753, WP Co, London (e.g. the Orange one); the Jade one is a Wyvern No 7N; and the Lapis one is a Wyvern Perfect Pen, No 81. There is also a shorter No 5, and shorter pens with an S instead of the N suffix.

The patent was applied for in 1919 (http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=17&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19201007&CC=GB&NR=151753A&KC=A) and judging from the shape, I would have thought this pen dates to late 20s or 30s.

By the way, the section of your other Ingersoll looks like a Wyvern section to me as well.

Happy new year

Simon

This is a chatelaine.  No, not a chatelaine pen; it’s a receptacle that you put your pen in.  Does that seem a little redundant to you?  It did for me, at first, then I had a bit of a think about it.  The later ringtops, the ones with a screw on cap, they were more or less all right, though I believe it was not entirely unknown for them to unscrew themselves in a treacherous way, allowing the delicate pen to fall to the flagstone floor.  Like cats which always land on their paws, pens dropped on a hard surface mostly manage to twist themselves into the nib-down position.  If they were liable to self-destruction, so much more so must the cone-cap pens of an earlier time have been.  I’d be amazed if any of them lasted the week.  Swan turned out a few with a bayonet-type cap fitting, but they didn’t seem to catch on to any great degree.  All this does make the chatelaine look more practical, if a bit tiring.  Pull the cap off the chatelaine, take the pen out.  Pull the cap off the pen, post it on the back of the pen.  Write note.  Take cap off back of pen, slide it back onto the front.  Put pen in chatelaine.  Put cap back on chatelaine.  Do that a couple of times and I’d be done for the day.  Makes the pencil behind the ear seem more of a practical solution…

Though it’s made from some base metal it’s quite a stylish and well made thing.  Quite plain, though the equally spaced bands with the attachments for the chain give it dignity.  I confess to being quite taken with it.  If you have to hang something off your clothing for writing purposes, this might as well be it.  It could be quite versatile, too.  You could stir your tea with it or if any person in the company was becoming irritating you could use it poke them in the eye.

I’m sure they had great fun with all their accoutrements back in those Edwardian times.

Can someone who is knowledgeable about Eversharps tell me what this is, please.  It appears to be a plunger filler.