Help Identifying A Cross Pen?

[ApplesauceMcGee]

Hi folks!

 

Trying to identify the model of this seemingly cheap green plastic cross. I found it with my grandfather's things, and I want to find an appropriate converter.

 

Thanks!

 

http://i.imgur.com/RWJ12mph.jpg

 

 

[max dog]

That's a Cross Solo/Radience. Discontinued model, sporting a nib sourced from Pilot. Nice writer.

Edited July 12, 2015 by max dog

[ApplesauceMcGee]

Thank you, sir. Will go looking for a converter now.

[gordonhooker]

It would be so nice to have got the pens my grand parents and parents owned you are lucky treasure it.

[max dog]

It takes the Cross green converter.

The cap posts on the barrel with a confident click like the Townsend. Didn't find out about that until after a few month of owning the pen.

[ApplesauceMcGee]

Just ordered the green converter. Thanks, folks. The other that I found was a nicer Pelikan, and I was able to identify that one, as well. Great forum, thanks for being so welcoming to newcomers.

[ApplesauceMcGee]

As a sentimental sidenote, it was neat to see as I cleaned out both the Cross and the Pelikan the colors of ink Pop used. Green in one, blue in the other. It was a small thing, but it was neat to see.

[max dog]

Welcome to the forum and hope you enjoy using your cross and pelikan.

[max dog]

Welcome to the forum and hope you enjoy using your cross and pelikan.

[desktoptoys]

ApplesauceMcGee, from where did you order the green converter? I have the same pen but in a burgundy color. A gift from my mentor and friend about 20 years ago.

 

BTW, I'm new here and was glad to see the exact thread I was going to start.

[DaveBj]

I have one of those, with matching BP and 0.5mm pencil, purchased in the early '90s. I had forgotten what it was, but hadn't gotten around to asking. Now I know. Thanks, Applesauce and max dog

[Jerome Tarshis]

Where to find a Cross green converter: At a pen shop, or a shop that sells pens. In the United States, where I live, art-supplies shops often sell fountain pens, because artists and graphic designers take an interest in making marks.

 

Flax Art, in San Francisco, has an excellent fine pens department, where I have bought green converters. (Also, for my Century II, an orange converter.)

 

One may also buy green converters at pen shows. The simplest thing, available almost no matter where you are, is to buy converters, green or orange, from eBay sellers.

[desktoptoys]

Thanks, Jerome!