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Can anyone please help me with this item? Any information would be greatly appreciated!

It is a pen, screw off lid and is 3.5” long. Cannot find any makers marks. I believe it is sterling.

 

looks like a ballpoint pen , in a metal case.

 

Not sure anyone can tell you much more. Missing its chain. Tip will twist off to allow for removal of refill. Ball point pens first became widely available following World War II. Assume unmarked for Sterling.

Debora

 

TIFFANY did something similar.

Debora

 

Unless you can see a reservoir for ink, the older type were usually mechanical pencils.

 

Agree.

Debora

 

Yep. Balpoints 1930 and up.

1930 surpriced me when that came to me, as i thought balpoint invention would be much younger.

Very nice object

 

The first ball point pen patent was in 1888. In 1938 an improved ball point pen was designed and patented. The first commercially successful ball point pen debuted in 1945, after the end of World War II, but it wasn't until the mid-1950s that ball point became widely accepted and used. I would think yours dates to the 1960s (which is also the date of the TIFFANY example.)

Debora

 

Lol, yes. Was hoping for a bit more info on it.

 

Thank you so much! It sure had me stumped!

Thank you for the information! Much appreciated!

 

Thank you so much for all the info! I appreciate it.

 

OMG that old Debora?
I only knew the last part of that story of the 1930 hongarien Bira pen, patented in 38.

 

I was just playing around with your title !!

In the future , if u include the item in you title it will be easy to find it later, and folks who have information will come to it easier...

just sayin........

 

May well be sterling, may not. Would need a test, or a hallmark to be sure.

Certainly a ballpoint pen, and if so, then dates to the late 1940s and after. While the BP was invented in the late 1930s, they weren't commercially available until the late 40s and early 50s (WWII tends to do that to product development).

That being the case, I'd date it to the 50s or 60s.

Tiffany has made stuff like this, but I've never seen this particular design made by Tiffany. If it was, it'd be festooned with the Tiffany marks.

 

The engraving looks like an Asian motif,this type of pens are still made in China and Indonesia.

 

I would call the motif 'foliate.' Like that of the TIFFANY pen.

Debora

 

What kind of refill does it use? That can often identify the brand definitively.

 

In case it’s a while before I make it back here, this might help: https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Pen-Refills/pt/231