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Originally Posted by JBirkholm
That's not entirely true. They can be made of either metal. I've owned several of both.
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Good ones are, and always have been, gold. Cheap $2.00 Schaefer cartridge pens are steel. You'd be hard-pressed to find a 1920s-vintage pen with anything but a gold nib. Either way, JSA's statement that an item was signed with a "steel-tipped fountain pen" is absurd; there's no way to tell what the nib was made of (although the most likely metal is gold.) I maintain it's just another example (albeit a small one) of authenticator ignorance.