no cigar. The filigree is standard issue that was bought buy the gross from jobbers.
The celluloid is rolled, not rod stock -- a low quality technique that was patented by
Eclipse founder Marx Finstone.
Workmanship.
But by the time that 1920 celluloid was being used, Victorian filigree pens had been
out of style for a decade. It's like a Roaring 20's flapper wearing a bustle. And if
that weren't enough, the clips don't match. Nice eye-candy, but not top drawer.
Details.
But this Mandarin triple band by Eclipse, made at about the same time, is spot on.
With just these two examples, how can one make a sweeping generalization about the brand?
There is a pompous pundit of Pendom who has prated purple paragraphs of prose
purporting to profess the perfect precept of "tiers". Phew!...that's a lot of P!
Read all of that bilge and it boils down to, "Because I said so." Entirely subjective.
The concept, as a means for ranking pen makers is flawed. For individual pens okay, but
then so is "junk" and "nice".
Opinions? Rebuttals appreciated.
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