ESTERBROOK FOUNTAIN PEN MODEL LJ DOUBLE JEWEL GREEN 50s

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I'm listing another Esterbrook fountian pen from an estate sale. This is a Esterbrook LJ double-jewel fern green in color. This pen still has it's oringal price tag ( see pic). I believe after looking this pen over real good and because it still has tag, that this pen was never used. The cap and barrel have no scratches or teeth marks. This pen is in excellent shape. The nib is a Duracrome #2550 (firm extra-fine) for bookkeeping and is real smooth in excellent condition. This pen is from the fifties. This pen was purchased from a estate sale and I'm selling it in the same condition I bought it. I bought this gentlemans complete collection of fountain pens. I will be listing more from the estate sale. Please take a good look at my pictures and email me if you have any questions about this pen or if you want to see different pictures. I describe my pens to best of my ablity and tell every detail I can about the pen I'm selling. My pens I'm selling haven't been restored. HAPPY BIDDING!!!!!!! I'm showing a example of a LJ to show measurements. The Model LJ The LJ is the same length as the J but is thinner (and looks decidedly more slender), with a capped length of about 5". The distance between the lever and the barrel-end tassie is slightly longer than the lever itself; this is like a J, but the LJ's jewels are both the same size. The new streamlined shape went through a couple of minor tweaks. First, Esterbrook replaced the ribbed cap jewel with a plain round one; the clip was riveted to the cap with a metal grommet, with the jewel pressed into the center of the grommet. The next change was the addition of a stamped ESTERBROOK imprint on the clip. The J reached its final form in 1948 with the adddition of a jeweled tassie on the end of the barrel to match the cap's clip mounting. Despite their low selling price, Esterbrook's plastic pens are remarkably well made. The use of thick plastics gave them strength, and you rarely see an Esterbrook with its barrel bulged by the spring-steel clip ring that secures the lever in place. The marbled colors, of celluloid, have a harder surface than the injection-molded solid-colored pens; it's not uncommon to find solids dulled by wear or darkened by grime that has been ground into the surface. Most of these pens clean up very nicely. Esterbrook's use of stainless steel for the furniture on the J family was an economy measure; it was less expensive to make the parts of stainless, despite the metal's higher cost, than to apply plating to a cheaper metal. The use of stainless is a boon for collectors half a century later, because Esterbrook furniture does not brass. Corrosion is not unheard-of, but it is rarely found on Esterbrooks except, as with other pens, on the occasional nib. Esterbrook designed the J series to take advantage of the economies of scale. All four models use sacs of the same size, no. 16, cut to the same length; all of the pens except the J have barrels of the same diameter, and small rubber plugs inserted into the barrels of the SJ and LJ reduce their inside lengths to the same as that of the H and CH. A clear plastic "trough" inserted into the barrel of the J reduces that pen's inside diameter and effective length appropriately. Because the barrels are all the same length inside, the same pressure bar, too, works for all four models. Jewels, cap bands, clips, tassies, and levers are the same throughout except for the J, whose parts are necessarily larger. MY FOUNTAIN PENS I SELL HAVEN'T BEEN RESTORED. I GET ALL MY INFROMATION FROM A BOOK BY GLEN BENTON BOWEN CALLED COLLECTIBLE FOUNTAIN PENS. I DECRIBE MY PENS TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. I ALSO GET ALOT OF INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET AND YEARS OF COLLECTING FOUNTAIN PENS. INSURANCE IS ALWAYS A OPTIONAL AND IS BASED ON USPS PRIORITY MAIL RATES. $1.35 .........$0.01 to $50 $2.30 .........$50.01 to $100 $3.35 ........$100.01 to $200 $4.40 ........$200.01 to $300 $5.45 ........$300.01 to $400 $6.50 .......$400.01 to $500 I WILL SHIP OVERSEAS. I CHARGE... read more

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