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Conway Stewart Dinkie 570 Lumina Green
(Excuse the quality of these photos. I’m not happy with this camera. They say it’s a poor workman that blames his tools but I think I bought the wrong tool. It has a lens with all the...
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A Conway Stewart 759 Set in Plum With Black Lines
The 759 is a wartime pen. It’s a step down in price from the ever-popular 286. They are the same length but it might be that the 759 is a little narrower – believe it or not, for once I don’t have a...
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The Conway Stewart 150
Like the 68 I wrote about yesterday, this 150 is a late, downmarket pen. A year or two ago these later Conway Stewarts would hardly sell at any price but I see that’s no longer the case. There are two...
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A Conway Stewart 68
This Conway Stewart 68 differs from any of the previous ones I’ve had in one respect: it writes! The others never could be induced to write, no matter what I did. The 68 is the definition of flow...
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Conway Stewart 27 Plum Hatched
Given my choice among the more opulent streamlined post-war Conway Stewarts, I would choose the 27 every time. It’s very similar to the No 60. It’s a little slimmer and it has a CS 5 nib rather than...
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Conway Stewart 496 Set
The 496 is not often seen and that’s a pity because it’s a beautiful pen. The patterned ones are exceptionally lovely in their schist-like colours but even the black pen is inordinately handsome and...
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Which Conway Stewart?
Thank you for the suggestions. Keep ‘em coming! One question that perplexes me that would likely be within your realm of expertise regards the pens by Conway Stewart. I wonder just what is the REAL...
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Conway Stewart 85L Blue With Gold Veins
I wrote about the 85L before, back here: http://wp.me/p17T6K-cI, where I suggest that the 85L is a successor more to the 84 than the 85. Be that as it may, the 85L is a pen that stands out among the...
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A No Number Late Conway Stewart Cartridge Filler
I was almost convinced that I have written about this hideous pen before, but I have assiduously searched the blog and there’s nothing there so here goes: The pen closely resembles the Flowline...
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Conway Stewart No 12 Set And Musings On Other Matters
I had a productive morning fixing pens. I covered most British manufacturers and most filling systems. Keeps me interested. There were several Swans and it occurred to me that there was a period...
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The Conway Stewart 93
I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of these herringbone Conway Stewarts for years, but I always got outbid. Until this week, that is. Not only did I get a herringbone, I got a RED one, and one...
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Conway Stewart 388 Oblique
I can’t believe that after all this time I still haven’t written about the Conway Stewart 388, but I just searched the blog and I’ve only mentioned it in the passing where it related to other pens....
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Debate On The Ethics Of The Present-Day Conway Stewart Company
An interesting debate, and one that bears on the future of our hobby, I believe, is taking place in The Fountain Pen Board under Conway Stewart – The True History. This is the debate that was...
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Conway Stewart History Corrected
One of several annoying things about the present-day Conway Stewart company is the Soviet-style re-writing of history they present on their website. Though their only relationship with the original,...
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Casein And A Conway Stewart Conway 15 Set
Casein is peculiar stuff. While there’s no denying that there are some problems associated with it, the depth and luminosity of colour that it offers can’t be matched by any other material. It...
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Conway Stewart 84 Rose Marbled With Gold Veins
I like the Conway Stewart 84. It’s quite a short pen but no thinner than most other Conway Stewarts of the time, so it’s quite comfortable to write with for most people. Its time was the early...
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A Green Striped Conway Stewart 36
In 1955 Conway Stewart retired the long-running and very popular 388 and replaced it with the more modern-styled 36, using the same CS5N nib and keeping the dimensions roughly the same. As well as the...
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The Conway Stewart 57
I don’t usually buy pens from Conway Stewart’s later output so I must have been dozing off when I bought this 57. It happens. I got around to assessing and restoring it today. Actually, it was in...
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The Combridge Pen
You may remember that I said recently that I’d swapped the little Quail Stylo for a pen I’d long wanted. This is it, the Combridge, another of those Conway Stewart Associated pens, to use Jonathan...
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The Conway Stewart Quail Stylo No 3 Again
The Quail Stylo attracted much interest. A consensus of opinion has it that it’s a rebadged Conway Stewart Pixie 113 though the company for whom it was provided is now unknown. Late twenties, early...
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