CS1185 Conway Stewart Dinkie No. 550. (Semi-Flexible Medium)

CS1185 Conway Stewart Dinkie No. 550. (Semi-Flexible Medium)

Date: c1950s

Size: Capped - 107mm, posted - 127mm.

A very pretty little Dinkie made from an attractive dark blue marbled casein.  Casein is a form of plastic made from milk proteins.   This pen is in excellent condition, with no damage to report.  The pen has a lovely glossy appearance and no apparent plating wear to the gold plated trim.  The cap has a small conical gold plated top button that holds on the gold plated pocket clip that has the "CS" monogram within a diamond at the top and another diamond at the bottom.  There is a fairly narrow gold plated cap band below the pocket clip.  The barrel imprint is crisp but quite shallow, and the cute little filling lever has the "CS" monogram imprinted in the circular end tab.  The nib is shiny and totally undamaged and is a medium point.  

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib writes very smoothly with a very nice wet and medium width line.  It is also a semi-flexible nib and will produce some very attractive line width variation from a fine to a good generous medium with very little effort on the part of the writer.