CS1182 Conway Stewart No. 286. (Soft Medium)

CS1182 Conway Stewart No. 286. (Soft Medium)

Date: c1930s

Size: Capped - 130mm, posted - 160mm.

A lovely glossy blue and black marbled celluloid Conway in very good condition.  There are no splits, cracks or chips and not even any noticeable surface scratches.  The only damage I can find on this pen is some plating loss to the pocket clip generally.  The cap has a large conical-ended ebonite cap top button holding on the washer style gold filled pocket clip.  The clip has the "CS" monogram within a diamond shaped cartouche at the top and a diamond-shaped terminal at the bottom.  There is also a single gold filled cap band and this is undamaged with no brassing at all.  The flat-ended barrel has a nice crisp and clear, and very large, imprint and a short filling lever, also gold filled.  It has a circular end tab with the "CS" monogram again within a circular cartouche.  The black hard rubber section, also undamaged and glossy, holds the large and undamaged Conway Stewart No. 5 nib in 14-carat gold.  It looks to be in a fine point.

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib is very smooth in use and lays down a very nice, wet and fine width line.  The nib has some softness to it, and it will give you a little bit of line width variation as you write.

An excellent and good-looking writer.