Chain, Cord, Etc To Wear Ring Top Pen

[Jocelyn]

Ok, I'm not the first or the last but I'm the NOW person looking for options to wear with two gold ringtop pens, both just lovely artifacts! I have found the below options, and I may get one but I'd like more choices. I'm not crazy with the price for the sautoir you're all gonna recommend on Richard's Pens. What else have you got? I want LONG, gold-tone, strong, not expensive....

 

here's what I dug up so far besides Richards sautoir

 

this and similar on ETSY

https://www.etsy.com/listing/253612892/leather-lanyard-lanyard-id-badge-lanyard?ref=shop_home_active_7

 

and this little find... it's perfect but I wonder will it HOLD???

https://www.goodybeads.com/store/products/Z002804.htm

 

Thanks in advance you're always so helpful. I'll post pics of one of my ringtops (mostly to gloat) here too (the other is on its way)

 

I <3 FPN!

[sidthecat]

I feel your pain. I've been using detachable lanyards for my collection of ringtops, but the sautoir got me thinking about making something nicer. I started buying jewelry findings to make my own. The sewing is pathetic, but I was able to cobble together a decent sautoir with a length of silk ribbon, a watch-fob clip, a large-diameter ring and a doll's shoe buckle.

 

That said, that chain looks more than adequate to the purpose.

Edited October 22, 2016 by sidthecat