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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 183865, member: 360&quot;]Figtree has a very good memory.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pen is made of BCHR (what most pen collectors call &#039;black chased hard rubber&#039;) or to use a more common term - ebonite.</p><p><br /></p><p>A self-filling ebonite pen would date to ca. 1905-1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>A self-filling ebonite pen without a pocket-clip would date to about 1910-ish.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you&#039;d be looking at something AROUND the time of the First World War. That would make this pen approx. 1910.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would be my conclusion, based on collecting antique pens for 10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not Mabie Todd, then. Are there any other markings on the pen? Any numbers? What else is stamped on the nib?</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW - Don&#039;t get excited by the fact that it has a gold nib. Every antique fountain pen has a gold nib. It does nothing to increase the value beyond making it possible to write with.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- --- --- --- </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve done a bit of ebay-poking. I think AF is right - WHS = W.H. Smith. </p><p><br /></p><p>The pen is from around 1905, so I wasn&#039;t TOO far off on my deductions! </p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s made by the English pen company CONWAY STEWART. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an identical one online: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.ie/itm/ANTIQUE-CONWAY-STEWART-MADE-FOUNTAIN-PEN-THE-W-H-SMITH-SELF-FILLING-PEN-C1906-/381614285829" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.ie/itm/ANTIQUE-CONWAY-STEWART-MADE-FOUNTAIN-PEN-THE-W-H-SMITH-SELF-FILLING-PEN-C1906-/381614285829" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.ie/itm/ANTIQUE-CONWAY-STEWART-MADE-FOUNTAIN-PEN-THE-W-H-SMITH-SELF-FILLING-PEN-C1906-/381614285829</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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