Vintage MOORE Fountain Pen - Green celluloid - FLEX NIB Fine to 3.0 mm -RESTORED

Description

1930's Vintage Moore Fountain Pen, Green Marbled
Celluloid - RESTORED
Ready-to-use refurbished vintage Moore fountain pen with Moore 14 kt gold Fine flex nib
WET NOODLE!!
(Nib flexes
tremendously
even with very little to moderate pressure)
Moore Pen Company - known for their "high-quality lever-fillers" and "celluloids noted for their beautiful patterns and colors" (Richard Binder)
Made in Boston, Massachusetts
Pen
:
Green marbled chatoyant (
iridescent
) celluloid barrel and cap with rounded top and bottom.
Celluloid iridescence (chatoyance) is difficult to photograph -- it is gorgeous, though.
Lever-filled  [to fill, lift lever, submerge nib in ink, then flip the lever back down].  Filling instructions will be included.
Confirmed lever-filling system with new sac successfully filled the pen with water and flushed the water out
Gold-filled trim only has micro-scratches
Cap:
Screws on
Clip imprinted with "MOORE"
Double cap bands
Clip which includes ball end.  Clip has strong snap-back when plucked.  Ball slides smoothly over edge of pocket.
Cap is a VERY tight fit onto the end of the barrel -- it does not post deeply, but it is quite secure.
Barrel is stamped, and the two lines read:
"THE MOORE PEN CO."
"BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A."
See scratches on barrel imprint photo: under "CO." and above the "O" in "MOORE."
See
scratches at the top corners of the lever slot.  Most other scratches blend into the chaotic celluloid pattern.
Pocket pen - diminutive compact size allows this pen to serve as a pocket pen.  (FYI:
Same
length as a Kaweco Sport.)
Carry it in your pocket or purse.
Once the cap is posted on the end of the barrel, the pen is a normal size pen
Nib
:
WET NOODLE!!!
Dreamy
to use!
Nib is 14 kt Moore gold nib
Nib point is a #2 nib which is FLEXIBLE and Fine (look at the writing samples in photos)
Flexes from Fine (0.45 mm) to astounding QUADRUPLE BROAD (3.0 mm)
Line variation with normal writing is very good, as is the shading.  See writing sample.
Imprint reads:
THE
MOORE
PEN
2
See condition of nib tip in photos - excellent condition
WARNING
: flexing this nib beyond the 3.0 mm range may damage the nib, either by springing it or initiating a crack that will grow with every use.  Consider 3.0 mm the extreme maximum, and not the everyday writing line width.  (
The nib actually flexes wider than 3.0 with no problem.  Some writing samples had it as wide as
3.2 mm
.  Finding an ink that can span that gap, however, will be the limiting factor for this nib.)
Restoration included:
Soaking, disassembling, ultrasonically cleaning, scrubbing, flushing, buffing, and polishing
Nib unit (section, nib and feed) was
disassembled
, soaked, and scrubbed.  Nib and trim were polished with jeweler's cloth.
Old sac removed and replaced with a new sac
Tested filling system with water
Tested installed nib by filling sac with ink to confirm it it writes smoothly, the degree of flexing, and whether the feed system could keep up the flexibility.
Flushed nib after test; however, a hint of the Waterman green
ink may remain in the nib
Thoroughly inspected.  No cracks or chips or dents or significant scratches.  See photos.
Eversharp Company Background
(from Richard Binder's RichardsPens.com website):
(
Moore Pen Company
) A pen manufacturing company located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded as the American Fountain Pen Company in 1899 by stationer Walter F. Cushing and optical salesman William F. Cushman, who had acquired the rights to Morris W. Moore’s design for a retractable safety pen (U.S. Patent # 567,151
). Moore’s Non-Leakable Safety Pen was remarkably simple and straightforward to manufacture, and it sold extremely well into the 1920s with only one modification, the addition in 1918 of a prong at the base of the cap to force-retract the nib if the user began to cap the pen before retracting the nib manually. Acquiring people and intellectual property in 1917 upon the dissolution of the Boston Fountain Pen Company (bought by Wahl), the company renamed itself as the Moore Pen Company and expanded its line into
high-quality lever fillers
.
Among the Boston people coming to Moore was co-owner George F. Brandt, who developed for Moore an improved version of the comb feed whose patent had gone to Wahl.
Like L. E. Waterman, Moore was slow to adopt newer technologies, abandoning hard rubber pens in 1926 but continuing to make flat-top models well into the 1930s.
Moore’s celluloid pens are noted for their beautiful patterns and colors.
In 1946, the company introduced the Finger tip, an odd-looking streamlined pen intended to compete with the Parker “51”. Early Finger Tips had flow problems, later corrected. The pen nevertheless sold poorly, and Moore discontinued it in 1951; thereafter the company’s product was a line of mediocre squeeze fillers. Moore finally went out of business in 1956.
Measurements:
Pocket-pen sized
Length:
Capped 4-1/4"  (108 mm)
Posted 5 1/2" (140 mm)
Diameter of barrel  0.43" (11 mm)
Weight - 0.4 ounces (11 g)
Shipping Details:
Shipped with
USPS First Class
.  If being shipped
outside of USA
, will use Global Shipping Program (
except
Canada
.
.. I will ship directly using USPS).  Please first confirm your country is NOT on the
exclusion list
(see
tab labeled "Shipping and Payments"
behind the "Description" tab).
I will
combine
shipping, happily
I will ship using a
faster
USPS method (Priority, for example), if you pay the difference in price
Note, shipping speeds are much slower than normal