WATERMAN 42 safety pen - rolled gold guilloché overlay

The use of precious and semi- precious overlays on ebonite pens, is typical of the Italian scenario of the 1920's till the 1940's.

Waterman models were very often enriched with rolled gold overlays manufactured by Italian worskshops under licence of the official Waterman Agent for Italy.

The market in Italy was in fact very favourable towards metal overlays while standard models in black ebonite resulted much less interesting for buyers.

Overlays could be very elaborate and rich or extremely simple,in order  to suit the taste of many different types of customers.

For a detailed review of the many variations, you can check the blog  

https://www.tenpen.it/article/waterman-safetythe-art-overlay-additions-part-1

This Waterman 42 has a very simple and elegant overlay, It has no traces of brassing and it is very shiny.

Unfortunately, there are two tiny dings, which you can see in the pictures. 

The nib is a superb Waterman EF extremely spingy and responsive.