Wahl Eversharp Decoband Ebonite Chased Gold Trim with 14kt Gold Nib Fountain Pen. Your choice of Blue, Brown, Green, or Cracked Ice NEW!

The new WAHL-EVERSHARP Decoband pen traces its origin to the year 1928 when the company, then called the WAHL Company, produced the oversized Gold Seal Personal Point fountain pen. The Gold Seal was their answer to other manufacturer’s symbols for lifetime guarantee. Based on their 1926 large Signature Pen in shape and size, the “Decoband” received a distinctive wide gold Grecian Border cap ring. And for the first time, the double-check mark Gold Seal signifying WAHL Pen’s “Lifetime Guarantee” was placed on the pen just above the pocket clip. The Oversized Gold Seal pen from which the new Decoband is derived, has become one of the most widely recognized pens from the “Golden Era” of Pens. In the 1920’s pen model naming was not a universal practice. Originally, the “DECOBAND” WAHL Pen was identified by a stock number, and simply called the “Oversized Gold Seal Personal Point Pen”. Apparently, the fact that the Gold Seal would be used on many subsequent WAHL-EVERSHARP pen models was not taken into account when naming the pen. That oversight has continued to be a problem for pen collectors today when trying to refer to these iconic pens.BY convention,vintage pen collectors came to refer to these pens as “DECOBANDs”. Today the WAHL-EVERSHARP Company pays homage to this seminal design which became a key element in what would become one of the four most successful pen companies of all time. Our new Decoband fountain pen is proportionate dimensionally to the original but differs from its name-sake ancestor in being a larger piston-filling pen. It carries a large no.8 hand-wrought solid gold nib. The rest of the pen is made of modern materials. The 1928 pen came with up to sixteen different nibs, causing the consumer to be rigidly committed to their choice unless they were skilled and invested in changing out Personal Points. Today’s Decoband is available in conventional tipping sizes, which are intimately familiar to the modern pen enthusiast.