OTHER ENGLISH PENS
(all in FULL working order, unless otherwise stated)
(Condition Scale: F = Fair. G = Good. VG = Very Good. EX = Excellent)

(Updated 13th March 2026)

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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.

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(Condition Scale: F = Fair. G = Good. VG = Very Good. EX = Excellent).

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Our ref.	Model	Colour	Year	Condition	Price
ME 152	A button-filling AUTO-FLOW with original MEDIUM nib	Green & Black marble	c.1940	VG/EX	£60
ME 135	A lever-filling AUTO-FLOW with original MEDIUM nib, with slight flex	Gold & Black marble (faded)	c.1940	VG - would have been EX but for some slight fading of colour	£50
ME 148	A lever-filling AUTO-FLOW (click on the images below for larger pictures) with original MEDIUM nib - slight flex click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib	Burgundy & Black marble	c.1940	VG - some plating wear on the filler lever	£50

A nice rare early example of a PITMAN'S FONO pen -
probably manufactured by De la Rue for use in
Pitman's shorthand - a phonetic system of rapid
writing developed by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1837
(click on the images below for larger pictures)

(Black chased vulcanite - no oxidisation visible)
Base of the barrel is engraved FH = Flexible Hard

with original FINE 14 ct. gold FONO nib
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)

£85

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This is a really rare and attractive pen
and no, it's not a Waterman's Patrician,
even though it looks very much like one !
This is the cheaper PLATIGNUM lookalike,
hardly ever found anywhere these days.
(click on the images below for larger pictures)

(You won't find another of these for sale - anywhere)
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with MEDIUM semi-flexible PLATIGNUM steel nib
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)

£100

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And here is a very handsome and early WHS pen.
(Until recently, W.H.Smith & Son , were the
leading stationers in the UK, and even had their
own Pen Repair Department in their London headquarters)
SOLD !
In really nice cosmetic condition,
this is probably from the mid 1920's,
and might have been manufactured by De la Rue
with MEDIUM 14 ct. warranted semi-flexible gold nib

£90

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A one-off offer - TWO for (nearly) the price of ONE
CROXLEY pens - both in nice condition.
These were only made for a very short time in the 1940s
by the UK stationery firm of John Dickinson & Co. Ltd.
(click on the images below for larger pictures)

Their premises were in Hertfordshire, as is the village
of Croxley Green from which the pens took their name.

with their original Dickinson (Croxley) nibs,
(click HERE for the nib of the Black one)
and HERE for the nib of the Green marbled one)

£75

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Here's a make - SEE-THE-INK -
and a set, we've never seen before.
Engraved on the pen and pencil 'MADE IN ENGLAND'
but otherwise, no clue to the manufacturer
(click on any of the images for larger pictures)

(from the colour, it MIGHT be by Golden Platignum)
Pen and pencil in original unused condition -
box is quite fragile, but intact.
Pen has a MEDIUM 14 carat gold nib
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)


£70
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A L-O-N-G and slender Onoto 5600
(click on the images below for larger pictures)

In really nice cosmetic condition,
though the nib is very slightly mis-shapen

with its original MEDIUM /FINE 3/ST nib
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)

£75

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And this is De la Rue (Onoto manufacturers)
in MINIATURE
A not-often-found De la Rue DAINTY pen
(click on the images below for larger pictures)

In nice cosmetic condition,

with 14 carat gold FINE nib,
which may, or may not, be original
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)

£50

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And this one also comes from the same stable
(De la Rue Ltd), and is the first of this
brand that we've ever seen.
(click on the images below for larger pictures)

Engraved THE KNIGHT RIDER, it was once
a deeper Green than shown here - (a small amount
of the original colour can been seen at the base of the barrel).

with MEDIUM semi-flexible 14 carat warranted nib,
which might, or might not, be original.
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)

£60

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BOXED, and with original paperwork.
A pretty SUMMIT CADET,
colourful, and with nickel-plated trim
SOLD !
Manufactured around 1946 by Curzons Ltd.,
of South Hunter Street, Liverpool.
with its original MEDIUM semi-flexible 14 carat gold CADET nib
This is a really nice pen, both to hold and use,
and in great original condition.

£68

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And here is a STEPHENS lever-fill
No.106 - very slim,
We think that the number 106 denotes Gold-plated trim,
to differentiate from the No.56, which has nickel-plated trim
(click on the images for larger pictures)

Restored to full working order,
there is some slight swelling around the lever aperture

with what we think might be its original 14 carat gold
warranted MEDIUM/FINE semi-flexible nib
(click HERE and HERE for pictures of the nib)

£58

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(click on the images above and below for larger pictures)
A rare find - MINT and with all paperwork -
(as it left the factory all those years ago)
A SUMMIT CUB pen and pencil set, with chrome-plated trim

One for the collector, or perhaps a gift ?

Pen has its original nib, though it looks more
MEDIUM than FINE to us !
(click HERE for a picture of the nib)

£75

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NATIONAL SECURITY
(Updated 26th February 2025)

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, as well as some other London pen companies.

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 early1930'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.

Our ref.	Model	Colour	Year	Condition	Price
NS 111	An attractive and quite rare and slim NATIONAL SECURITY (click on the pictures below for larger images) (with original FINE warranted 14 carat gold nib) (click HERE and HERE to see images of the nib)	Green and Black marble	c.1938	VG/EX	£85
NS 116	A NATIONAL SECURITY button-filler (with MEDIUM warranted flexible 14 carat gold nib)	Black and Gold marble	c.1939	G/VG - with replacement Burnham 'teardrop' clip	£50
NS118	A really RARE and handsome NATIONAL SECURITY pen - in a colour that we've only ever seen once before - and probably won't see again. (with what we think is a later MEDIUM warranted SPECIAL gold nib )	Light and dark Mauve swirly patterning on a Black background	c.1948	VG/EX	£100

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