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Vintage celluloid usually shows some shrinking to various degrees. Depending on the kind of celluloid and brand, the shrinking can be enough for the cap bands to loosen. Sometimes you see such pens which even lost cap bands due to this problem. Is there any good way to fix this issue? Can you tighten the cap bands somehow?
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I have just got a Meisterstück 146 from the 1950's which otherwise looks pretty fine to me - but the three bands on the lower part of the cap are all brass and some of the letters are almost worn off. What worries me is that I can't imagine that it's really possible to wear down brass like that... It could be some kind of paint, its a weird brassy colour anyway. It certainly is not gold and its not even shiny. It even looks nastier in reality than on the picture. If its a fake band it has taken a lot of work without ever being able to fool anyone... Any suggestions to what it is?