Conklin "crescent"?

[swanee]

Last week at the local auction I believe I saw a (genuine) vintage black Conklin 'Crescent' but it was a LEVER filler in the shape of the later rounded Enduras!

It carried a rather large cursive CRESCENT imprint on the barrel and a very old Warranted nib. But it was definitively not a Crescent as I know them.

Lambrou and other references can't tell me I saw it, so has anyone else dreamed the same?

[ehemem]

Strange things exist and happen Down Under...

[Roger W.]

There are lever filler Conklins.

 

Roger W.

[swanee]

After what was then in reality a quick push and shove at the auction display case face and again after a few more hours of reflection I am beginning to look differently at this problem. Is there such a pen make as The Crescent? Did I actually see the name Conklin? Or does it just look like, even replicate, those successful 1930's Conklin Enduras. Perhaps I am becoming 'pen blinded' after so many years!

Is it scarce and was it worth $75AUD that someone else paid for it?

I may have hundreds of pens but do not have, nor ever seen, The Crescent. Can anyone tell me that the Crescent does exist? Please put me out of my misery.

[Happy Harry]

The "Crescent Pen" was a Conklin sub brand and and a lever fill line. A lower cost but well made pen originally, All American and Ottawa are other Conklin sub brand. The Crescent and Ottawa lines use warranted nibs, the All American use that name on their nibs. Not that common and it's really a condition issue, $75 is not unreasonable and they make good users.

[swanee]

Many thanks to you Happy Harry