So my fountain pen club friends, and one Mr. DR in particular, is trying to convert me from a modern user to a vintage collector. My appetite has been whetted – the journey has begun with my first vintage purchase of significance. I spotted this Waterman 92 in an unbelievable “snakeskin” pattern on Ebay. Neither of DR nor I had seen anything like it before and couldn’t find in any of our books.
The most information that I could find about it was on the Fountain Pen Network from Dr. David Isaacson (http://www.vacumania.com/) – “a non-USA pattern with no catelog (sic) known to me” as well as the fact that he owns a smaller 92-V set. While not particularly descriptive, the information is helpful in that it confirms the uniqueness of the pen. BTW, he also mentioned that if I was interested in selling it to drop him a note :~). I think I will be holding onto it for now – at least until it is resacced and I write with it (or put it on my desk and admire it for awhile). I may even get a nibmeister like John Mottishaw (http://www.nibs.com/) or Richard Binder (http://www.richardspens.com/) to replace/retip the nib so it produces a wider line.
Enough already, here are the pictures (I didn’t take them, they are from the Ebayer (http://myworld.ebay.ca/beansantiques) that I bought it from). Trust me, the pen is real and its spectacular!
The nib just needed a bit of a soak to get rid of that ink you can see in the picture. The lever was “stuck” – no surprise that the sac was dried up.
Filed under: Ebay, john mottishaw, richard binder, snakeskin, vacumania, vintage, waterman 92
