1920s Pick Flat Top Fountain Pen - SUPERFLEX

Vintage: 1920s

Make: Pick

Model: flat top

Color: Black

Materials: Celluloid, gold-plated trim

Filling System: Lever-filler (resacced and guaranteed to fill and write as designed)

Length: This full-sized model measures 5” capped

Nib: Super-Flexible 14k Warranted #4 nib lays down a smooth and consistent XF line that widens to a 4B+ (approx 2.5mm) under light pressure 

Condition: Gold-plated trim is clean aside from 2 tiny spots of wear on the bottom edge of the lower cap band directly beneath the clip and some pin-sized marks on the clip and lever. Celluloid has a smooth, lustrous surface with no deep scratches or other noteworthy blemishes apart from 3-4 pin-sized nicks near the top of the cap to the left of the clip and a couple scratches over the barrel imprint. Manufacturer imprint on the barrel is deep and fully legible. 

Details: Founded in Cincinnati, OH by Arthur Schoenberger, Pick flourished from 1920 to roughly 1933 under the direction of a former employee of Weidlich. As Richard Binder writes, “Pick produced pens of very high quality [...] marketing the product to dealers by driving a pen into a block of balsa wood, removing it, and showing that it still wrote well.”