Another rare brand, Lakeside was th top-of-the-line pen produced for Montgomery Ward in the early half of the 20th C. Beyond the Lakeside name, I was not able to find a model for this pen. The 14K nib is springy, not quite flexy, but a sweet writer. The Jade is in very good condition, with almost none of the discoloration that plagues so many Jade celluloid pens.

Greischaber is a fairly obscure brand that made pens in Chicago from somewhere in the 1890s into at least the 1930s. This micro-mini pen (3″ capped) has a nicely preserved jade color, and a teensy 14K Greischaber-makred #1 nib. The nib seems little-used, and the barrel imprint is clear. Sadly, it’s missing it’s ringtop, which means it is essentially open to the air, so it’s not rwally useable. To be fair it’s a little small to be used easily anyway. A nifty little treasure!

Eclipse is a hard brand to pin down. PenTrace did a nice piece here, where he decries the lack of consitency and examples, and true to form, this pen doesn’t quite line up with any of his examples, either. It’s in fantastic shame, almost NOS, but carries no imprint other than ‘Eclipse’ on the clip. The nib is marked only ‘Warranted 14K.’ What makes this pen unusual are the spoon-shaped lever, and the translucent cap jewel, which I have not seen on any other pen, though Eclipse did seem to be fairly adventurous with their designs. According to PenTrace, the company changed to a new clip from the standard ‘z-clip’ of the early 1920s in 1923, and this model has the ‘Klein Clip’, which puts it at the earliest, 1924. I have this listed as BHR, which would also indicate 1920s, but it’s also possible that it’s plastic molded to empulate BHR. The spoon clip with the laurel wreath imprint does not have a lever box, which also suggests mid-to-late 1920s. In any case, it’s a really pretty, classically vntage styled flat-top pen.