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My Doctor's Pen has arrived !! Thanks Kevin

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Congratulations Simon, there you have an outstanding pen which is 100% usable. Mine comes every day with me and helps a lot in having pleasure while working... :)9

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Greg @ Mar 3 2006, 05:37 PM)

Mary wrote "Our 18 carat solid gold nibs are bought from Bock to the standard specified."

 

Oh, I think I didn't need to know that.  I thought they were CS nibs.  Disappointed now.  Not that there is anything in the slightest wrong with the wonderful nib in my Churchill, but it somehow reduces its attraction knowing it was bought in.

 

One has to settle with the fact that most Italian, British or American small pen manufacturers' gold nibs are bought in from Bock (similar to the car or computer industry parts outsourcing), they seem to be the only independent gold nib manufacturer left.

 

For what it matters, bought-in nibs have a long tradition in the pen industry. Waterman bought all of their nibs from the Leroy Fairchild from 1885-1900 or so, then switched to buying them all from Aikin Lambert until Waterman took over AL in the 1920s or so. I believe a number of companies bought their nibs from AL, their rubber parts from Davidson Rubber, etc. It was not quite as much a one-company show as Bock seems to be, but lots of parts were outsourced back then.

 

I certainly don't consider my early Waterman's to be lessened by the fact that AL made the nib.

 

John