Show Me Your Yard-O-Led

[max dog]

I got this about 2 years ago, and I am in awe every time I take it out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[whichwatch]

Great pen and nice pictures, Max Dog!

 

My two favorite silver pens are my Yard O Led and the Aurora next to it, shown here with a Visconti that has moved to a new home.

 

 

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[PAKMAN]

Here is mine. Got it to celebrate my retirement.

 

 

[max dog]

Great pen and nice pictures, Max Dog!

 

My two favorite silver pens are my Yard O Led and the Aurora next to it, shown here with a Visconti that has moved to a new home.

 

 

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Thanks Whichwatch. That Aurora is gorgeous too and makes a nice pair with the Yard O Led.

 

Here is mine. Got it to celebrate my retirement.

 

 

That is an awesome retirement gift for yourself PAKMAN. I love the inscription you got on it. Really looks elegant.

 

The YOL was a grail pen for me for a long time, so it was a wonderful day when I got this one in my possession. And it writes as wonderfully as it looks.

[PAKMAN]

Wonderful writer and such great craftsmanship! I had Vanness Pens do the engraving.

[Carrie]

Mine is just the Retro. One day I might get a full silver version.

[max dog]

Mine is just the Retro. One day I might get a full silver version. IMG_20190211_135104.jpg

That's an elegant looking pen! The black on silver is a good combination.

[max dog]

Here are my other sterling silver pens. Sterling is my fave finish, timelessly elegant.

From left to right: Cross Century 2, Cross Townsend, The YOL Viceroy Grand, Montblanc 146 Solitaire, Cross Apogee.

[Cordovian]

I only have a Retro FP and pencil set (crappy cell pic).

 

[max dog]

Excuse this old post revival, but I came across an old email from Yard-O-Led that some here might appreciate. It was in response to a question I had about my pen and I sent some pictures (posted in this thread).

 

When they can tell you the name of the craftsman who worked on your particular pen, you know you have something very unique and special. Yard-O-Led pens are indeed special, and highly recommended if you get the opportunity to acquire one.

 

Subject: RE: Question about my pen

 

Hi Jung,

 

Thank you for providing those.

 

This is a Grand Victorian fountain pen made around 2017-2018 and the chased pattern was created by Jess Mobley.

 

As for your question…

 

We stopped the Made In England around 3 years ago on the request of the new owner. So none of our products have this stamping anymore, we thought as all our pens are solid silver and are fully assayed in the Birmingham Assay office so people would know it’s still made in Birmingham UK because of the hallmarks.

 

We can assure you that your pen is 100% genuine Yard O Led and made and polished by our team here in the Jewellery Quarter.

 

Kind regards,

 

Yard-O-Led

Customer Services

www.yard-o-led.co.uk

[como]

A recently acquired YOL Grand Viceroy in Barley pattern. Apart from the beautiful craftsmanship, I was also very impressed the nib performance.

[Historyguy]

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I have a small collection of Yard-O-Leds and I'm going to try and review each one but here are two of them. I have a Grand Emperor here in that beautiful blue marbled resin and a Viceroy Pocket fountain pen in the Victorian finish. The Emperor was an Ebay find (at quite a reasonable price) and the Viceroy Pocket came from Amazon (the last of their stock of Yard-O-Led pens).

Michael

P.S. Take no notice of the book as it was a handy place to put the pens (it's for a reading group my colleagues and I are part of on campus (and I'm a Roman historian by training so the topic seems interesting but it does not have anything to do with fountain pens. ).

Edited August 28, 2019 by Historyguy

[Rancho Gordo]

I am very pleased to have found this at an excellent price.

I was concerned that this thinness would be a problem but I'm pleased as punch.

(My handwriting is always this illegible.)

[Rancho Gordo]

This arrived today. If I weren't so self concious, I'd squeal.

[jameswatts]

That's an elegant looking pen! The black on silver is a good combination.

 

Love my Yard-O-Led Retro!

[inkstainedruth]

I should not read threads like this....

A Viceroy Victorian Standard is my grail pen. The "when I win the lottery" pen. Because there's no way I can afford one otherwise.... (I blame PAKMAN for this -- when I first joined here about 7-1/2 years ago there was a thread called something like "Show Us Your Silver Pens" and he had posted photos of his Grand Victorian -- and I was just drooling....)

What I fear is that even the Standard will be too heavy a pen to be comfortable for me to use. But the smaller (and cheaper) Pocket Pen, being cartridge only -- no converter -- is a deal breaker for me.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PAKMAN]

This arrived today. If I weren't so self concious, I'd squeal.

 

Beautiful!

[Rancho Gordo]

So I polished it and it's even better, if that's possible.

Do you know what the the hallmarks mean?

 

I have

YOL

925

925

An anchor

A lion

The letter T

 

On the top of the clip it says 1086.

 

I assume the 925 is for Sterling silver.

[Rancho Gordo]

The pen.

[hari317]

,,,

The letter T

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it is the year code letter. t is 2018.

 

https://theassayoffice.com/date-letters