CS245: The Conway Pen No. 485.

Date: c1930

Size: Capped - 5 3/16 inches, posted - 6 1/8 inches.

A very unusual and uncommon Conway Stewart button filler.  Conway only made a coupel of models in the button fill and this is one of them.  It is in excellent condition with the only damage that I can see being some very minor and slight colour fading to the hard rubber of the cap and barrel, but it is nothing you will notice without magnification.  The cap top is in the slightly tapered "streamlined" style of the late 1920s and early 1930s.  The early ball-ended pocket clip has the "CS" cipher at the shoulder.  The barrel end blind cap is very well disguised and at first glance you cannot see the joing between it and the barrel.  It unscrews easily to reveal the original filling button.  The imprint is a little faded and difficult to make out in places, but it appears to be complete.  The nib is made from14 cartat gold, and is a Conway Stewart No. 3 in a broad point.  The right-hand tine appears in the photographs to have a tiny kink.  This is not at all noticeable without high magnification and does not affect the performance of the nib in any way.

I have fully serviced this pen.  The nib is very smooth in action and is also semi-flexible, producing some very attractive line width variation with only minimal effort on the part of the writer.  It can easily produce lines from a fine to a broad width.  

A most unusual and early Conway Stewart model.