The Fascination with Gold Bond I love Gold Bond pens marketed by Montgomery Ward in the 1930s, but it seems that except for me and a few others, these wonderful pens are not well known in the entire collector community. Obviously, some dismissed theses as just another "third-tier" pen brand, but to me, as long as a pen is objectively made well and of high quality, it can be welcome in my collection. So this is the chronicle of the Gold Bond pens that I discovered and restored over the years. #1 The Big Gold Bond (2017) You have no idea how much I've been waiting for this Gold Bond brand pen to "rise from the ashes". Last year the barrel and cap of this pen came to me, and I immediately like it because of its size, and I can tell that this pen used to occupy the top tier model. But Issue #1, the section was missing and being a big pen (usually vintage pens are smaller) it's hard to find a section that would fit it, not to mention the one with a nib size that ...
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