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I've just finished working on a Burnham B48 lever filler from about 1950.  A nice attractive pen in a black veined marble with some of the 'polygons' silver grey and the others are ?? Well they do look like a honey brown to me but they are, I think, described as Burgundy.  The first thought is that it was burgundy and has faded, but the silver and black haven't faded and the picture in Andreas Lambrou's 'Fountain pens of the world' is the same colour as this pen and is described as 'Burgundy, grey black veined mosaic.'  Faded or not,...

I bought this from a collector, it just looked like an interesting old pen. It looks like a 1930 ish lever filler.     But it appears as if it might be an eye dropper conversion.  It has a see through window, a screw on blind cap at the end of the barrel but it also has a press bar ink filler.  When you look through the ink window all you see is the aluminium sleeve, not the ink level.  I can see no other reason why it has an ink window and a blind cap.  The pen fills well and...

This is a lovely big, handsome pen in Black with Gold trim.  At 16 cm. posted it doesn't sound that big, but it is quite 'fat' and it has a huge nib which adds to the feeling of an unusually large pen.  It has a box lever filler and what is often called an 'art deco' clip with that big nib that just says 'Waterman Emblem Pen'.  Its a super writer, flexing from fine to broad, and very smooth.  There is no barrel imprint but it says 'Waterman's made in U.S.A.' on the cap.  I don't think it ever had...