Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The Patent Book Passes a Harsh Test

My friend in California, who parted with the grey Parker Zaner-Bloser from yesterday’s article, had a few other things that he was interested in selling. Here’s one of them:


Great minds run in the same very small circles – I had bid on this item in an online auction probably five years earlier, not knowing anything about "Seth Crocker" but just because I liked the name . . .

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1 comment:

John Hubbard said...

I think that "weird" clip is pretty clever. It looks as if it would be retracted into a flush position in the side of the cap unless the cap were fully seated over the nib. It does, though, seem to require a rather odd looking knob on the end of the barrel to hold it in the retracted position when the cap is posted.