Product Description
Type Piston filling vintage fountain pen in excellent working condition
Product Name Conklin Nozac Word Gauge, 5M version
Manufacturer and Year Conklin, USA -- Circa 1934.
Length 5-5/16"
Filling System Piston filler. We've restored the filling system and it works great.
Color Foliage green marble celluloid with a dark amber semi-transparent window for the "Word Gauge" system. The barrel is like a graduated cylinder where the tick marks show how many words can be written before the pen runs out of ink. It has gold filled trim and two cap bands, and a black ribbed end piece.
Nib EXTRA-FINE semi-flexible 14k Conklin nib. It has a crescent breather hole. Please see the writing sample below.
Condition Excellent condition with no cracks, chips, dents, or dings. This is a shiny pen in lovely shades of green with some pearlescence and with black lines that squiggle around the green marbling. The barrel has a 2-1/2" viewing window that has a gauge showing ink level. The barrel has moderate scratching both on the gauge and on the patterned portion. The cap has heavier scratching with what appear to be some shallow bite marks at the top of the cap. There is plating wear on all three of the thin cap bands as well as moderate microscratching. The clip has a lot of brassing and plating wear. The imprints are clear.
