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An Esterbrook Dollar Pen in what is informally called cracked ice...it looks greenish in the pic but that's my fault.

A few more pics of individual pens, because I'd already taken them. This is a Schnell, made with an airplane clip to capitalize on the Lindbergh craze.

Pens from Wahl Eversharp, a Chicago manufacturer which was one of the Big Four penmakers in the 1930s and 40s. 1/2/3/4. Gold Seal models from 1929ish, in black and pearl (see how the white portions are yellowed, not good), green and bronze, lapis lazuli, and coral plastic. Note the roller...

More Parkers. 1. 1919 Jack Knife Safety in black hard rubber, with a flexible nib like a wet noodle. 2. Depression-era pen which collectors refer to as a True-Blue, though that might not have been what the factory called it. 3. 1934-37 Thrift-Time. 4/5/6/7/8. Vacumatics from the mid to late...

Sure, you bet. I am a terrible photographer, and didn't have much time today, but here's a few shots. Parkers -- 1. 1926 (?) Duofold, commonly known as a Big Red. 2. 1927ish Duofold Junior in Mandarin Yellow. 3. An unusual English Duofold in marbled white celluloid. 4. A depression-era...

Hi, ksbanker, nice to find a fellow collector here. You’ve got some nice pens there, would love to have a Duofold with a broad nib. I’ll try to share some pics later. Rick Horne (aka the Southern Scribe) is great, a nice guy and totally honest. Ralph, if you can’t fimd your Sheaffer school...

I would go with your current exchange. Having the (correct) phone number in the center of the dial is a classy touch. Thanks for explaining about the ringers, Ralph. Our first extension phone (a curious hybrid of a 500 base and a long, heavy 300 handset) had no ringer and that must have been why.

The article has it right. I collect fountain pens, have, er, a couple hundred of them. I wasn't taught cursive any more intensively than anyone else my age (57) but my handwriting is a lot better than most, because of the way a fountain pen forces you to write. Cursive (which is still taught at...

This restoration makes me hope that you'll be able to get your hands on one of those Grunow refrigerators with methylene chloride refrigerant, that operates in a vacuum on both the low and high sides, but I suppose there are only a handful of them out thee.

That sure did quiet down with the new belt and a full charge of refrigerant. Like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree, it just needed a little love. Great job! If nobody on the Monitor Top forum knows of another working example, there may not be one. Now that you've got it working again, how about...

It looks like new!

BBC 'Sigma' fridge? I'm guessing that's not the broadcaster?   Don't know, but I assume this BBC was Brown, Boveri & Company.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown,_Boveri_%26_Cie

Great video! 40 lbs. of cast iron, can't get much more American than that! They were made in Detroit, right? I'm loving hearing it run, too, even as is. As I mentioned, my grandmother had one of these. My parents used to laugh about visiting her just after they got married, and having to...

Looking forward to the Rollator restoration vids!

Ron Johnson was the Apple genius that tried to make JC Penney over in Apple’s image. Ellison was called in to clean up the damage, after a brief interregnum by former Penney chairman Mike Ullmann. Ellison’s decision to leave JCP was probably a sign that he thinks Penneys is beyond saving...

I don’t know about the toaster in the Edison place at Ft. Myers. As I recall, McGraw-Edison (Famous for Toastmasters) wasn’t formed until the late Fifties when McGraw bought the old Thomas A. Edison, Inc., and wasn’t a part of GE. Hotpoint, which was owned by GE, was called the Edison Electric...

Presuming these were the first eccentric roller"rotary compressor?   That's what I understand, Brendan, but not an expert.

Clorox's CEO was interviewed on CNBC this week, and as best I understand what he's saying, tariffs are not a big deal for them (except in their Brita water filter business) because they make most of what they sell here in the United States (starting at about 6:30 at the linked video). He does...

Have you ever come across a Norge Rollator? That’s what my grandmother bought after her town got electricity in 1929. I saw a Rollator compressor in a museum in Ottawa once, but like the Frigidaire you saw, it was just a lifeless display. I can’t imagine there are too many of them still working...

As I recall, my parents judged the strength of the brew by looking at it as it was spurting through the little glass knob in the lid. Though experience was probably also a large part of it. Every time someone came over for dinner, there had to be two pots of coffee made: one regular and one...