The body of the pen has this super lovely celluloid pattern (it's semi-transparent as well). But it had no internal parts. Who knows what happened to its original piston filler assembly.
Entering this picture, a piston assembly from a "Mercedes" piston filler (good quality, metal screw, nice design) I had in my parts bin, whose body was broken in half long ago.
As intuition (and luck) would have it, these two parts use the same threading! Without this ... ahem, connection, you all won't see the photo above.
I guess technically you can call this pen a "frankenpen" because it truly was rescued into full-functionality by using donor pen parts.
But, to me, it's as dear as any other pens that I restored which had the luxury of not having missing parts. If anything, the fact that I can sketch with this pen at all makes it more special.
Oh, and the nib is a "snake" nib from a Moonman pen, it kinda fits the celluloid pattern. Until I can find a nice vintage period Degussa or Bock, it'll do for now.
The sketch is a quick one, card-sized, of an imaginary 16th century Galleon sailing the waters of the Caribbean... probably watching out for the telltale sign of pirate ships.
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