Identifying Dad's Pen

April 6, 2011

I found this pen amongst my Dad's stuff after he passed away last year. As the only member of the family who uses a fountain pen, I got it :clap1: .

It uses the older style cartridges, but the nib doesn't look like any of the C/F pens that I've seen anywhere. I did get a C/F converter for it and it writes like a dream.

The clip was yellow with some green rust on it--but it popped off and I lost it the first time I stuck the pen in my pocket.

The top says "Watermans Made in Canada".

(I haven't figured out how to embed the photo, so I've attached it).

Thanks in advance

Edited April 6, 2011 by Lawrence Fox

April 6, 2011

I found this pen amongst my Dad's stuff after he passed away last year. As the only member of the family who uses a fountain pen, I got it :clap1: .

It uses the older style cartridges, but the nib doesn't look like any of the C/F pens that I've seen anywhere. I did get a C/F converter for it and it writes like a dream.

The clip was yellow with some green rust on it--but it popped off and I lost it the first time I stuck the pen in my pocket.

The top says "Watermans Made in Canada".

(I haven't figured out how to embed the photo, so I've attached it).

Thanks in advance

Hello,

After the C/F, there were some derivatives made in Canada or England in the late fifties, and even the C/C (an entry level pen for students, with a steel nib). I do not know if they had a specific name, or just called C/F (or C/C) like the original C/F.

Pierre.

April 6, 2011

To my (limited!) knowledge, that's just known as a C/C. I've just gotten one in hand myself, a USA-made edition by the imprints, and it looks like one of those horrible, doomed things of which you can say, "Had this appeared five or perhaps even two years earlier it might have saved the company!" That's assuming that it was popular-priced, of course, but I can't imagine a lot of steel-pointed stuff of that era which wouldn't have been. I guess the interior complexity might have been a profit-lowerer, too, but the certainly do write like a Waterman should.

Edited April 6, 2011 by Ernst Bitterman

April 7, 2011

Thanks everyone! That helped quite a bit. And yes, I do love the way it writes (now if I can only get a clip for it

BTW, the picture makes the barrel look black--it's actually a dark grey.

Based on some comments in another thread, I found my way to Captain Chang's site, where he had a picture of this pen with the comment:

The Waterman C/C is an entry level student pen. It uses the same (now out of production) cartridges that the higher end CF uses and is often confused by collectors for the CF. The CF's nib is set into a U-shaped cutout, while the C/C's nib is more akin to the Parker 45 with an exposed breather hole.