I’m not a refiner but I do have several fountain pens with 14k gold nibs, usually with iridium tips (but not always) and every once in a while I see collections of gold nibs on sale on eBay for not too much so was wondering if anybody has tried refining them and if so how much value is in a typical nib?
Normally when I see W M Rogers on a piece I keep moving but these didn’t say silver plate plus they have a couple of stars on them plus they have the marking I S (international silver), plus, Rogers’ DID make some sterling. All of that can mean nothing with Rogers’ stuff so I took the file out of my pocket knife and spent a couple of minutes filing on the side of one handle and bottom of a spoon bowl and never found copper, so since they were only $2 I took a risk. I can’t really allow myself to believe these are really sterling but I’m no expert so I thought I’d share these here and see what the consensus is.
I have only seen this mentioned a few times and would love to know if it’s true and if so where’s the recording.
Supposedly at one of the memorial services held in New York after the murder of John Lennon Don stepped up to the microphone with his soprano sax and said something along the lines of, and I paraphrase: “This is for Sean from John through Don” then blew a saxophone solo that, allegedly, was surprisingly emotive.
I question the veracity of this story as I would’ve thought by now a recording would’ve surfaced and I’ve yet to hear one, but if it is true, surely somewhere a recording exists.