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I thought I should share this set with you. These were bought separately; the rocker blotter was first. I was attending the Columbus pen show several years ago when Tom Heath and I decided to take a break Saturday afternoon and go pen hunting in the antique shops south of the city. In an antiques co-op in a big old house, I spotted the deco rocker blotter, having no idea what it was. I just liked it, and it was in gorgeous condition with that huge block of celluloid. I bought it, saving it from the pen turners/repairmen who would cut it up just for that celluloid! By sheer happenstance, I spotted the base and pen at a later pen show for not much money, and snagged it to put with the matching blotter. The condition was pretty good with no damage, except that the celluloid had ambered in comparison to the blotter. When I got it home, I placed the two together on top of the wooden filing cabinet in my home office, and I have yet to clean and polish the desk pen and base. I never gave them much thought, that is, until I bought my first two Snorkels last month! A couple weeks ago, I moved the set, and when I pulled the pen from the base, I discovered it is a Snorkel with it's $15 price tag in place, model No. 121GKD. (The G is questionable; see photo below.) That number is not corroborated by the pen selection that's on the bottom of the base, which at $15, calls for a No. K108 740 pen. (Daniel, get your catalogues out.) Here are the photos (pardon the dust!). Enjoy! Fred

Hello everyone. One of my bosses is into fountain pens, mostly Montblanc, and has decided to narrow down his collection and get rid of some of the pens that he is not using. He has given me one of those pens in order to sell on his behalf and I must admit that I am a Pelikan guy and know very little about older Viscontis. The pen is a Visconti Rinascimento Deco Fountain Pen with a 14K Fine nib. The silver is a bit tarnished and needs a polish but it's in great shape and all there including outer and inner boxes as well as accompanying literature. My research tells me this was part of a series produced in 2001 and now discontinued but I don't find much beyond that. My questions then are; 1) What is a fair price to ask for this pen? I don't want to take on selling something for someone else only to find that I accidentally "gave it away." There aren't many examples of past sales on eBay. The few that are there are for something like $150. This is a nice pen. Is it reasonable to ask more? 2) Is this a desirable pen or just an everyday, run of the mill, dime a dozen pen? 3) What would be the best method of polishing the silver barrel without damaging it? I do not have any silver items in my possession so do not know what the best method of care would be. Or, would it be better to leave as is and let whoever purchases it take on the polishing? Any and all opinions and information welcome as I'm quite out of my depths on this one. Thanks! See bad camera phone pics below (those purple splotches are a faulty camera lens)