Wahl Skyline

[gweimer1]

I have a question on the Wahl Skyline pens...not the Wahl Eversharp, but the original Wahl branded model. How common, or uncommon are these? I'm curious because I now have two of them, both coming in at prices I would expect to be really low, and both were identified pretty clearly. One of them was only $10.

 

I really like one of them (actually, I like both of them). The burgundy is really deep, and appears to be much deeper than an Eversharp burgundy. It also has a stub nib, which is fun.

[Barkingpig]

NOW, you have confused me. I don't understand because I saw the cap on a pen, from your recent early morning acquisition, that I thought was the Skyline Derby cap, I believe attributed to Henry Dreyfuss, which matches a cap on a pen I recently purchased. MY pen's clip is stamped "Eversharp," I can see an imprint on the gold band atop the striped cap material, just below the solid colored "derby," which says, faintly "Eversharp, Inc, pat/etc" and my nib is merely marked "Eversharp." There doesn't seem to be ANY "Wahl" markings on my pen; I did believe it was manufactured by a company named "Wahl Eversharp," & they just didn't include the "Wahl" on the pen.

 

My pen surely looks like the ones shown on Mr. Binder's site, but you mention "Wahl Skyline," so I don't know if we are speaking about the same pen. I do know there was a reissue of the Skyline , maybe a yellow one (Yellow Cab) besides the ones on the current Wahl Eversharp official site, that includes those drool worthy new Decobands from Mr. Saperstein.

 

And Mr. Mamouildes on his Pen Hero site does state that a very few of the Eversharp Skylines were marked instead, WAHL, "to maintain the trade name."He also states these are "uncommon." So I wondered if your pens are perhaps marked Wahl instead of Eversharp?

 

I have enjoyed mine & it's striped "tortoisey looking" cap while the newPelikan 400 Tortoise is being announced for sale. I am content with my "old pen" that cost $5.00 in 1946 when introduced & for honesty sake, my two tortoise Pelikans.

[gweimer1]

You read correctly. I have two of these, now.

 

[Barkingpig]

Then you surely have TWO of the pens Mr. Mamouildes called "uncommon" & I would think they would therefore be more sought after than the common ones like mine. NOW, if you measure & find them to be the largest of the "Skyliners," the Executive @ 5 5/8 in; you will have another attribution of "uncommon."

 

I appreciate your showing me the photograph of a pen I would have probably never seen; I believe that stub nib makes it even better!

 

I thank you for my lesson of the day; I am smarter today than yesterday. (The Lord only knows what or whether I will remember tomorrow; I did say when I began acquiring fountain pens there utility could make them possible for me to "take with me when I went to the HOME!")

[Ted F]

I believe the Skyline was introduced in 1941. That is the year that Wahl-Eversharp changed their corporate name to Eversharp. As most companies do, they retained their rights to the name Wahl. Below is my one example of an Eversharp Skyline.

 

 

 

[cobalt]

I have a black/gold Wahl Skyline with a Wahl smooth writing broad flex nib. Exceptional pen amongst my Skyline collection.