Richper413
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8-7-11 Update: All the pens are up for sale on ebay if anyone is interested!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150644418605
5-23-11 Update: So I went with the detector twice over the past month to my spot and the first try I only found 2 more but had to stop early due to weather. This past Sunday I got up there and had 2 hours to search and finally got out to the muddier area. In a 20 square foot area I found 8 more pens ( 6 Mont Blancs and 2 S.T. Duponts) 1 broken pen that I cant identify and a 700$ Movado watch!!! I would have stayed longer but I was getting really stuck in the mud and the tide was coming back in. Most of these pens were found about 2-4 inches down and the garrett 250 had no trouble with the salty water. This brings me up to 17 pens and now a watch!
A couple of the pens are actually pencils. Some even still have the graphite in it and work! The ones that are pens have the original ink cartridges in them. I've only found one that had a Mont Blanc refill cartridge. Most of the pens work now but need to be pulled apart and fully cleaned out. I bought a new cartridge for one and I'm using it now! The pens sell new around 350 each and I'm hoping most can be refurbished.
Can't wait to get out there again!
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This is why I finally bought a detector. My family has owned a house on a salt water river for about 20 years now. When I was a kid, we used to play in the rocky shore at low tide. As we would play, we would find this pens sticking out of the dirt. At the time, my family and I had no idea what kind they were or the value of them. Together over the years we must have found 30 - 40 of them. Sadly a lot got thrown out because they considered it trash on the beach and wanted to keep there property clean
Years later I was on Ebay and on the front page was a Mont Blanc pen selling for 350.00 I instantly recognized the pen and realized the mistake we made in throwing out so many of them! I only have 7 Pens in my collection, 3 of which I was able to get working again. I brought all of the pens to the Mont Blanc store in Boston and they were amazed that they were authentic and still in such good condition. There's no tracking of dates on there serial numbers but the woman told me they look to be from the 80s / 90s.
Of my best finds in the water are the solid sterling silver pen (retails at 1200.00) and the S.T. Dupont pencil (900.00)
Each year I visit the house, I find another pen, or piece of one sticking up out of the ground. No idea how they ended up here but it made me finally buy a detector to locate the ones that are buried! Its amazing how long they can stay submerged in salt water, and still look nearly brand new!
5-23-11 Update: So I went with the detector twice over the past month to my spot and the first try I only found 2 more but had to stop early due to weather. This past Sunday I got up there and had 2 hours to search and finally got out to the muddier area. In a 20 square foot area I found 8 more pens ( 6 Mont Blancs and 2 S.T. Duponts) 1 broken pen that I cant identify and a 700$ Movado watch!!! I would have stayed longer but I was getting really stuck in the mud and the tide was coming back in. Most of these pens were found about 2-4 inches down and the garrett 250 had no trouble with the salty water. This brings me up to 17 pens and now a watch!
A couple of the pens are actually pencils. Some even still have the graphite in it and work! The ones that are pens have the original ink cartridges in them. I've only found one that had a Mont Blanc refill cartridge. Most of the pens work now but need to be pulled apart and fully cleaned out. I bought a new cartridge for one and I'm using it now! The pens sell new around 350 each and I'm hoping most can be refurbished.
Can't wait to get out there again!
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This is why I finally bought a detector. My family has owned a house on a salt water river for about 20 years now. When I was a kid, we used to play in the rocky shore at low tide. As we would play, we would find this pens sticking out of the dirt. At the time, my family and I had no idea what kind they were or the value of them. Together over the years we must have found 30 - 40 of them. Sadly a lot got thrown out because they considered it trash on the beach and wanted to keep there property clean
Years later I was on Ebay and on the front page was a Mont Blanc pen selling for 350.00 I instantly recognized the pen and realized the mistake we made in throwing out so many of them! I only have 7 Pens in my collection, 3 of which I was able to get working again. I brought all of the pens to the Mont Blanc store in Boston and they were amazed that they were authentic and still in such good condition. There's no tracking of dates on there serial numbers but the woman told me they look to be from the 80s / 90s.
Of my best finds in the water are the solid sterling silver pen (retails at 1200.00) and the S.T. Dupont pencil (900.00)
Each year I visit the house, I find another pen, or piece of one sticking up out of the ground. No idea how they ended up here but it made me finally buy a detector to locate the ones that are buried! Its amazing how long they can stay submerged in salt water, and still look nearly brand new!
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