Waterman is a source of much mystery in my life. None of the pens which follow have a proper identity. Have a look, enjoy the spectacle, and if you think you know what and when one of them is, please let me know. I’ll guarantee anonymity of witnesses or full credit for the identification, as you prefer.
Mystery Waterman #0265
Waterman Whatsit #0265: An oblique top as one expects to find post-C/F, and while the clip itself seems to predate that model it was seen on some C/Cs. The cap clicks into place, and the whole front end is very like what is seen in a Ligne 60. Yet it’s a lever filler. Do you know what it is? Jump to the contact form at the bottom and let me know!
Mystery Waterman #0240
Waterman Whosis #0240. Externally very similar to the common run of Taperites, and of the same sort of “Ladies'” size as the Conquest, this is a very odd thing among Watermans: it carries a press-bar filler. For pens of that sort, this is an oddity also, as the barrel is held onto the section by a threaded stud at the very tail that grasps the extremity of the filler. There are no barrel threads as such; check it out. Do you know what it is? Jump to the contact form at the bottom and let me know!
Mystery Wateman #R96
Waterman Familiarity #R96. This is very probably a 302V. The shape of the clip marks it as being made before the 1940 (or so) change-over to top-rivet clips took place (see Stalwart and Daunltess as near cousins), and the nearness in shape to the Thorobred makes me wonder if it might not have had a name of its own. It’s probably not a 3V, since a 1936 reference shows that with an entirely different clip. It also looks very like the later Nightingale nurses’ pen, but for the pair of bands… my references don’t have a doctor’s version although on the same page of the ’47 book there’s one for priests and one for nuns, and the one for priests has two bands. If not for the absence of marking on its tail, it would have its own page. Do you know what it is? Jump to the contact form at the bottom and let me know!
Mystery Waterman #0027
Detail of the clip mounting
Waterman Thingummy #0027. Another strange Canadian object which bears some signs of arising after the release of the C/F; that clip is pretty suggestive of an earliest possible date. This one I have some tentative notions of, as it has some aspects which one might expect to find in a late Skywriter (but somewhat better general trim, a full lever-box and a gold point), and some that seem to be in common with a UK-made W2 (but a somewhat smaller point, and a full lever-box unlike those I’ve seen online). Do you know what it is? Jump to the contact form at the bottom and let me know! {Update: a note has been sent suggesting it looks very like the UK-made L2; I may start digging for more data on that object to see if I can’t satisfy myself that this is, despite the Canadian source, one of those}