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Crocker Ink-Tite Fountain Pen
Hello. I am a fountain pen newbie. I recently came in possession of a
Crocker Ink-Tite Fountain Pen with a Crocker #3 nib. It is black with wavy lines etched into the barrel. Patent date is January 30, 1917. It looks to be in mint condition. Can someone tell me anything about this pen? What would the value be to collectors? Thanks. |
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Crocker Ink-Tite Fountain Pen
This pen does not have the blow hole in the end. It looks like the end
screws off and then you raise up a handle to compress the sac and fill it. I heard they made one called "hatchet fill". Could that be what this one is? "j. fabian" wrote in message ... In article , "PHIL" wrote: Hello. I am a fountain pen newbie. I recently came in possession of a Crocker Ink-Tite Fountain Pen with a Crocker #3 nib. It is black with wavy lines etched into the barrel. Patent date is January 30, 1917. It looks to be in mint condition. Can someone tell me anything about this pen? What would the value be to collectors? Thanks. The Crocker Pen Company was founded in 1902 and made eyedropper and blow-fill pens. The Ink-Tite was a simple blow-filler. Blowing into the hole at the end of the barrel collapsed the sac. They also developed a side-hole blow-filler. In 1923 the original Crocker's son started the Chilton Pen Company in Boston with a successful piston-filler. Crocker made high-quality pens; Chilton started out making good pens but like most pen companies had its ups and downs. As to value, that is a market question. See if there are any posts on the major pen boards (Fountain Pen Network, Stylophiles, Lion & Pen, Pentrace); check with Berliner, Ink-Pen, David Nishimura. These should give you _retail_ prices, not what you can sell it to a collector for. Also the prices are generally for mint pens or perfectly restored. If you can get to a pen show those are the best places to learn about pens. Good luck! --jon -- well, it looked good on paper. |
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First of all great think you have done, that start using the ink pen. Actually the crocker is one of the best ink pen company and thats why people love to write with that. One major good thing about the pen is, It will never linking.
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