CS255: Conway Stewart Universal No. 479, boxed.

Date: c1930s

Size: Capped - 5 1/8 inches, posted - 6 3/8 inches.

This very attractive and glossy blue and black marbled Conway is in really lovely condition.  I have looked over it carefully but cannot find any real damage on the pen at all.  There are signs of some very minor colour change to the cap and barrel - fading, mainly - but this is much less obvious than the pictures would have you believe.  The cap has a black hard rubber top button that has a very nice colour with no fading.  The washer-style pocket clip is chrome plated and has the "CS" cipher at the top within a diamond shaped cartouche, and at the bottom, a diamond shaped terminal.   There is no cap band on this pen.  The barrel has a short chrome plated filling lever with a circular end tab that also has "CS imprinted, this time within a circle.  The barrel imprint is good and crisp and still in very nice condition.  The section is in black hard rubber and again has a very good deep rich black colour.  The nib is a 14 carat Conway Stewart No. 1 in a medium point.  The white paperboard box is much the worse for wear, with quite a bit of writing on it.  It comes complete with the original instruction/guarantee leaflet.

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib is very smooth in action and also has some softness to it giving it a nice springy feel when writing, and some very attractive line width variation with a little extra pressure.