Wahl Eversharp Pen Gold Seal, Lazulitic Blue GPT, #2 Flexible nib

📒 History/Provenance

• Well worn standard sized Wahl Gold Seal Pen with a gold plated military clip and gold medallion on the cap finial, from the late 1920's (1927/1928). In the exceptionally popular and beautiful lazulitic blue colorway, which found popularity across many of the the top pen manufacturers with slight variations especially with the addition of white celluloid, but Wahl kept their blue celluloid a pure mix of light and dark blues, similar to Mabie Todd Swan's xylonite.
  
  
• The military clip is a very cool snapshot of history where we see the move towards fixed clips that were manufactured as a modular part of the cap assembly.

🧪 QA & Recommendation

• Fantastic Semi-noodle flex nib that is nice and wispy through all strokes and especially smooth on the downstroke with perfect snapback.
• Tested on Rhodia 80gsm A5 pad and Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue ink.

🔧 Restoration Commentary

• Celluloid Nitrate has been polished lightly to get rid of microscratches but deeper scratches are not polished down to preserve as much of the material as possible. Celluloid under cap has darkened due to prolonged exposure to ink most likely, and there is a hairline crack in the cap which has been sealed and shouldn't be a structural issue.
  
  
• Ebonite grip section rejuvenated and lightly polished, "softness" of ebonite restored.
  
  
• Fitted with a latex sac, nib heat set and tuned