CR045: The Croxley Pen.

Date: c1930s

Size: Length - 5 1/16 inches capped; 6 1/4 inches posted.

This is a large and chunky Croxley in bluen and black marbled celluloid with gold filled trim.  as you can see from the close-up photos below, there is a tiny bit of wear to the plating on the  pocket clip, and on the raised central spine of the filling lever, though this is quite mild and you would not notice it unless you were looking very closely.  Both cap and barrel have a good original gloss to them.  The cap has a large conical-ended top button holding on the stylised arrow Croxley pocket clip.  There is also a narrow gold filled cap band.  The barrel has two imprints - one saying "MADE IN GT BRITAIN", the other "THE CROXLEY PEN / A DICKINSON PRODUCT".  Both are nice and deep and crisp with excellent definition.  The gold filled filling lever is also in the form of an arrow.  The original Dickinson nib is in 14 carat gold and has a medium width point.  

I have fully serviced this pen. It fills well and writes well too.  The nib is very smooth a writes with a good wet line.  The nib is soft and will produce some very attractive line width variation as you write.