Arnold Pen - A Keeper And Writer?

[boybacon]

Hello, Everybody!

 

Today in a fit of "I need to buy some old fountain pens" I purchased 4 (possible) junkers. One of them was this pen, an Arnold lever filler. The pen is in pretty good condition (from a newbie who knows little about pens), and comes with a little corrosion on the clip. The nib reads "Smoothline" over "Broad" over "U.S.A." so I'm wondering of it's NOT original to the pen. The ink sac is black, and looks like it has no cracks. There were a few ink stains on the nib that I cleaned off, and a some black ink in the sac. I don't know if the nib or the sac are original, and I haven't inked it yet. I bought it because I really liked the celluloid color (green and stripey!). So.....did I spend $8.00 wisely? Or do you think I wasted my cash. I won't ask my wife, because I'm sure that I know what her opinion would be .

 

I'll try inking it tonight and see what happens,

[kestrel]

Arnold is a third tier company that made some pens with very pretty plastic that tends to shrink with age which is why your pen appears to be missing a cap band. $8.00 is not a bad price and the pen may surprise you. I have four Arnolds sitting in my parts drawer because they need new sacs and I can't get them apart. Some of the later pens have sections glued to the barrel and I haven't found a nondestructive way to open them up. Calling those four "third tier" is being very generous.

 

I also have several older Arnolds that turned out to be very nice writers with a minimum of fuss. It it's pretty and it writes well then, to me, it's a good pen regardless of cachet. Enjoy your little green beauty.

[boybacon]

This morning I inked the pen with some Noodler's Purple and did a test write. The broad nib is a very nice writer! There's a lot of line variation as I change directions, the ink flow is consistent and it's not overly wet. This pen is a keeper! Oh, and it doesn't leak at all.

[kestrel]

Congratulations on your pen. Sometimes you get really fortunate and this looks like one of them. Enjoy.