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Waterman No 14 Eyedropper Filler.
The Waterman Ideal 14 differs only in size from the No 12. It’s close to as simple as a fountain pen can get and yet there is still, rightly, huge demand for these excellent writers. I believe it...
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Flexibility And A Waterman 52
Though I enjoy flexibility and I know many of my customers do, I don’t try to buy flexible pens. Buying from photographs, as I do, it’s impossible to judge what will be flexible and what won’t. I’ve...
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Waterman Junior
I’m always pleased when there’s a Waterman Junior coming my way. They’re superb pens, often in glowing colours like this iridescent green marble, and they have very, very nice nibs. I can’t find it in...
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Waterman Lady Patricia
This is the Lady Patricia, issued around 1930 as the distaff addition to the Patrician, which it resembles in the materials used but in no other way, really, except for the lever box. It’s a simple...
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Waterman W5
Probably because of its similarity to pens like the 502 and 515, the Waterman W5 is almost always referred to as a nineteen forties pen but it’s actually a product of a second revamp of the post-war...
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A Celluloid Waterman 52
Waterman updated its long-running 52 in 1934. It was shortened slightly and the ends of the cap and barrel became a little tapered. Most importantly, it was now made from celluloid and the trim was...
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Watermans, Ideal and Otherwise
Here’s a comment made by Stuart today. As comments go, it’s rather longer and raises more issues than most of my blog entries. Rather than italicise which makes it a pain to read, I’m enclosing...
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The Waterman CF
Despite a slight prejudice against cartridge-fill pens, I have always admired the Waterman CF, the daddy of all cartridge/converter pens. It’s just such a bold innovation – not so much the use of the...
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A Waterman Ideal 513 Set
Here’s a very handsome Waterman 513 set. It’s in a striated version of the Tiger’s Eye colours, an exceptionally beautiful combination of honey and brown. The 513 is a standard-sized pen, 13cm...
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A Very Flexible Waterman 52
I’ve outlined the history of the Waterman 52 before so there is no point in going over that again. This very fine example of a US-made Waterman 52 in black chased hard rubber didn’t look quite so good...
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