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OTHER
ENGLISH PENS
(all in FULL working
order, unless otherwise stated)
(Condition Scale: F =
Fair. G = Good. VG = Very Good. EX = Excellent)
(Updated 22nd June, 2017)
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order, please click here
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MENTMORE
pens were made in Hackney, East London, UK, between the 1920's and the
mid 1950's.
They are attractive, exceptionally well-made, and were deservedly very
popular,
especially between 1946 and the mid 1950's.
Mentmore also manufactured for several other distributors
and they, themselves, also used the brand name of Spot.
PAY
FOR YOUR PURCHASES WITH PAYPAL
(Condition Scale: F = Fair. G =
Good. VG = Very Good. EX = Excellent).
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Our ref. |
Model |
Colour |
Year |
Condition |
Price |
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| ME 111 | An attractive Mentmore button-filling AUTO-FLOW with original MEDIUM semi-flexible nib  |
Green & Black marble | c.1948 | VG/EX | £48 | |
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Mentmore SUPREME (button
filler) (click on the image below for a larger picture)  with original MEDIUM/BROAD semi-flexible nib |
Black with nickel-plated trim | c,1949 | VG/EX | £45 |
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The iconic Mentmore No.46 - there's other pen quite like this.
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Difficult to tell ! We think it might be very very deep Maroon, or maybe Black ? |
c.1950 | VG/EX | £48 |
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A handsome and boxed UNIQUE pen from the 1940's
Based in the South West London suburb of Merton, the Unique Pen Company
was in business from the 1920's to the late 1950's
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This, we think, is one of their De Luxe models
(adverts from that time do not show triple bands on the cap)
and it may even date from pre-1939
Both the clip and the flexible MEDIUM 14 carat gold nib
may not be original, and the colour at the top of the box is faded.
But however you look at it, this is a rare item of quality.
£50
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An unusual and attractiveAltura pen
Manufactured in their
own factory, in the Clerkenwell area of London,
this
one dates from the immediate post-war period,
probably 1946-1948.
(Click
on the images below for larger pictures)
Model No.740,
with its original MEDIUM flexible 14 carat gold warranted nib
Some plating wear to edges of the
filler lever,
and also around the extremities of the clip
(nothing
like as bad as it looks in the photographs !)
£60
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The
pride of Liverpool, from the factory of Lang's/Curzon's
A
SUMMIT pen
dating from the late
1940's
SOLD !
and this is a S125 model, with gold-plated trim,
and
with its original
MEDIUM/BROAD
14
carat
gold SUMMIT nib
which has some slight flexibility
£48
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A
late Grey SUMMIT S 160 lever filler
early 1950's - with gold-plated trim
(Click on
the image below for a larger picture)
Complete with its original 14 carat gold
Summit MEDIUM nib.
£45
and a near
twin -
SUMMIT S.130 in deep DARK GREEN
early 1950's - with nickel-plated trim
(Click on the
image below for a larger picture)
Complete
with its original 14 carat gold
Summit MEDIUM semi-flexible nib.
£40
BUY BOTH OF THESE PENS FOR £70
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An
interesting and MINT SELSDON
Gold & Black marble pen and pencil set,
in its original box, and with original shop-stickers
(Click on
the images below for larger pictures)
Little is known about this manufacturer, though the name may
have been taken from Selsdon, on the outskirts of Croydon
(where Burnham pens were manufactured), and could it be that
Selsdon
pens were the product of ex-employees of the Burnham Pen Company ?
Both pen and pencil have rolled gold clips,
and the pen has its original MEDIUM semi-flexible plated nib
£65
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NATIONAL SECURITY
(Updated
13th January, 2017)
National Security
and Rosemary
were the brand names of pens made for British Carbon
Papers of Farringdon, in the City of London.
During the 1920's/30's the manufacturers were Henry Stark,
Son & Hamilton,
also registered at the same Farringdon address.
Rosemary ("That's for
Remembrance") pens had been established in the
early to mid 1920's,
and are now scarce and very desirable collector's items.
The National Security
pens here date from the late 1930's to the mid 1940's
and are delightful examples of traditional pen-craftsmanship,
as well as being attractive items both to collect and use.
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Our ref. |
Model |
Colour |
Year |
Condition |
Price |
| NS 103 |
L-O-N-G, and an early example of a NATIONAL SECURITY
LEVER PEN (that's the barrel engraving) the cap can screw on to the top of the barrel when in use, making this one of the longest pens we've ever seen ! (with what we think is the LARGE original MEDIUM semi-flexible 14 carat gold nib) |
Black chased vulcanite (hard rubber) | Mid to late 1920's | EX - noting a tiny spot of plating wear on the lever | £55 |
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NS 105
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At
first glance, this could well be a LADY PARKER Duofold from the early
1930's - but you'd be wrong. It is clearly engraved NATIONAL SECURITY English Manufacture (click on the images below for larger pictures)  (with MEDIUM warranted flexible 14 carat gold nib)  |
Jade with gold plated trim | c.1936 | EX | £65 |
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