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PUBLIC AUCTION SALE 2285
Thursday, September 13, 2012
1:30 p.m.
in Boston in 1902, the Chilton Pen Company made high quality pens that were
best known for their innovative pneumatic fillers.Their most distinctive product
was theWingflow of the mid-1930s, which featured strikingly patterned intricate
gold and silver inlays against a starkly modernist design. From the earliest Boston-
made pens to the late model Golden Quills and Chiltonians, you will find them
all here, including some never-before-seen models.
In addition, the sale contains a fine selection of modern Limited Edition pens,
including some of the most highly sought-after Montblanc Patron of the Arts and
Writers Editions.
Also, we are offering a choice selection of vintage Parkers, including a couple of
16s, a slab-sided 45 and a Snake 38, a few early chased Aikens andWatermans, as
well as a very fine red rippleWaterman 58 and an iconic 20 in black.There is also
a handful of later Parkers including Duofolds and Vacumatics, a pristine Empire
State 51 set, a T1 set, and aWatermans 100Year set in the box.And those are only
the American pens.
From Europe we have early Montblanc Rouge et Noirs (yes, that’s plural) as well
as later safety pens, overlays and Masterpiece models going up through the 1960s.
In this group are multiple 129, 138, and 139s as well as black and colored 146s
and 149s. Pelikans are represented by the 110, 111 and Toledo models as well as
tortoise and lizard 101 and 101Ns. Italy is most strikingly represented by Asterope
and Etiopia models in exquisite condition from Aurora as well as a dozen or more
oversize models from both Aurora and OMAS, not to mention pens from Ancora,
Columbus, Montegrappa,Tibaldi and others. We round the sale out with a choice
handful of both modern and vintage Japanese maki-e urushi lacquer pens.
In all, we are most pleased and proud to be offering these pens in our inaugural
sale and we hope that you will share our excitement and will decide that a few of
these pens are worthy of inclusion in your own collections.