One of the comforts of
pen identification occurs when a pen maker chooses a single consistent
feature as the signifier of a model. The Admiral is a perfect
example of this-- if it's a #5 point, then it's an Admiral, even if the
trim and other features vary greatly. The downside to this
comfort is that it is essentially impossible to tell precisely when
this particular example was made-- it appears looking exactly like this
in the 1938 and 1941 catalogues, and the only difference is the
price. Before the war, this was a $9.00 pen, but on the eve of US
involvement it had dropped to $5.00.
None of which matters unduly in this latter day. I expect this is
actually a post-1941 example, as the furniture all had the distinctive
tarnish of gold over a silver base-- the lever was jet black when the
pen arrived here. Once brought back to itself, the pen wrote as
nicely as any Admiral I've
had in hand, and that is very nicely indeed.
Specifications: Fine two-tone
14K point.
Lever filler. 12.3 cm long capped, 15.4 cm posted.
Condition: I suspect that at some point since the
pen was made the body was polished, as it's astonishingly free of
blemish. The metalwork has more evidence of age, but there's
nothing for anyone to point at. Ink window is a crystal yellow.
Repairs:
Replaced sac with silicon to keep ambering from being an issue,
polished metalwork (a lot in
the case of the lever).
Location: Miami, Florida.
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