Waterman's Lady Patricia Moss Agate, Celluloid GPT, #2 PAT.

📒 History/Provenance

• The Patrician lineup was introduced in 1929 by Waterman's as their flagship model made of extremely premium celluloid nitrate in bright colors: jet black, onyx, turquoise, emerald, nacre, and moss agate. In typical mass market fashion, there were two skews: the larger Senior Patrician and the smaller Lady Patricia. The 1/2 (thinner), V (shorter), 1/2V (thin and short) models of many Waterman's pens were made to target this later demographic of women who preferred smaller pens for ease of carry in handbags and smaller pockets, this Lady Patricia follows the same sizing as a 52 1/2V. 
• The later models were fitted with a tip-fill feed that was meant to make it easier to fill fountain pens without submerging the pen's grip section to close the front air gap. Needless to say it was more of a marketing gimmick but as a result the feed looks very neat haha (pain to restore though).
• I have my personal Senior Patrician in Moss Agate to show how the set would look like.

🧪 QA & Recommendation

• Fantastic #2 nib with wispy hairlines on the upstroke, and nice wide flex on the down, comfortably reaches 1.77mm wide lines with light pressure, but even more impressive is the ink flow matching the snapback where you get super crispy thin lines even after flexing super wide. 
• Nice juicy flex strokes, will show off ink characteristics very well.
• Tested on Rhodia 80gsm A5 pad and Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue ink.

🔧 Restoration Commentary

• Crisp hallmark imprints on barrel and excellent gold plated trim.
• Celluloid Nitrate has been lightly hand-polished to get rid of microscratches but deeper scratches are not polished down to preserve as much of the material as possible.
• Ebonite grip section rejuvenated and lightly hand polished, "softness" of ebonite restored.
• Nib heat set and tuned for smoothness