Waterman’s Vintage 1908 Retractable Ebonite Dragon Wing Fountain Pen For Sale

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A fountain pen born at the dawn of the twentieth century, when portable writing became a daily gesture and the retractable nib a small revolution. The pass-through clip, fixed by rivets in a central position, is flanked by two mirror-image lateral embraces that envelop the screw cap: on each, hand-chiselled, winged dragons with a fluid and sinuous design develop. The ebonite shell, worked in alternating waves and lines, completes an austere and precious ensemble.

✒︎ Original nib 14 karat gold F tip, engraved Waterman\'s Ideal New York

✍️ Ready to write

🟤 Dark ebonite

🛠️ Body chiseled with alternating waves and lines

🏹 Pass-through foil clip with rivets in central position, with two mirrored side hugs on the hood

🐉 Hand-chiseled winged dragons on the side hugs of the hood

🔄 Screw cap

⚙️ Retractable rotation mechanism with retractable nib

🔍 Engraving on the cap: WATERMAN\'S PAT. APR. 23, 1908

↔️ Length 11.7 cm (4.6 inches)

⏳ Vintage 1900

🇺🇸 United States of America

🔍 Conservative state as photo
💎 Vintage collectible model: Waterman\'s Ideal 44 retractable

🎁 Complete with case

📜 Original guaranteed

🗞️ An era of ink and genius: On the hood there is an engraving worth as much as a birth certificate: WATERMAN\'S PAT. APR. 23, 1908. It is the date of the patent linked to the first safety pens with retractable nib, presented by Waterman in the spring of that year. For those who wrote on trains, in carriages and on desks of the time, it was the solution to the most feared problem: with the nib withdrawn inside the barrel and the cap screwed on, the ink remained in place even in the pocket. Absolute safety, obtained with a simple turn of the bottom knob.

The engraving establishes the starting point: this pen cannot be prior to 1908 and belongs to the first years of the retractable system, a period in which American manufacturing combined hand-crafted ebonite with increasingly refined decorations. The winged dragons chiseled on the side hugs of the hood are part of the fantastic repertoire that the Liberty and Art Nouveau taste loved to apply to writing instruments, jewelery and furnishings. There is no documented meaning linked to Waterman: in European tradition the winged dragon is the guardian of treasures and secrets, and on the cap of a pen it seems to watch over what is about to be written.

The 14-karat gold nib, with the F tip, engraved with Waterman\'s Ideal New York, is ready to write with a thin and precise line, typical of the great fountain pens of the beginning of the century. The wave and striped chisel and the hand-chiseled dragons are a pen that combines ingenious mechanics and decorative imagination: the type of specimen that collectors recognize at first glance and which is rarely still found in writing order.

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🗞️ An era of ink and genius: On the hood there is an engraving worth as much as a birth certificate: WATERMAN\'S PAT. APR. 23, 1908. It is the date of the patent linked to the first safety pens with retractable nib, presented by Waterman in the spring of that year. For those who wrote on trains, in carriages and on desks of the time, it was the solution to the most feared problem: with the nib withdrawn inside the barrel and the cap screwed on, the ink remained in place even in the pocket. Absolute safety, obtained with a simple turn of the bottom knob. The engraving establishes the starting point: this pen cannot be prior to 1908 and belongs to the first years of the retractable system, a period in which American manufacturing combined hand-crafted ebonite with increasingly refined decorat