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Howdy, group! Today in a lot buy from eBay, I received a very clean dark wooden Hallmark ballpoint, which luckily for me has a working refill in it. The thing looks like a Fisher Space Pen refill with an greatly elongated tip end, and with a threaded collar around it where the narrow bit meets the fat bit. Hallmark got out of the pen business about twenty years ago, and those refills are long gone. I've seen adapters on eBay and mentioned elsewhere for ridiculous prices that will allow use of Cross refills in these pens, and a bit more digging got me to here:

http://hallmark.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1019

That page tells you what to do to get a *free* Cross adapter mailed to you from Hallmark.

I don't need one *yet*, but I put in my request anyway.



-- Edited by Chthulhu on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 12:43:08 AM



-- Edited by Chthulhu on Sunday 2nd of June 2013 01:08:35 PM

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Hey Mike,

I also have one of the wood Hallmark BPs, and if my experience is any indication, you should not have to wait long for your adapter - Hallmark sent mine in fewer than 10 days from my email. They are a smaller, nice feeling wooden pen, and with the converter, it becomes quite a functional writer. Mine is a bit scratched on the clip, but still it is a well-executed wooden pen. And not terribly expensive.

Hubert



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I shot the pics using flash and attempted to correct the color myself - it turned out redder than real life, but brighter and easier to see the details, so I left it. The pens are probably as close in color as any two separate wood specimens can be. My adapter(s) (they may have sent me two of them - I don't remember) are white plastic and came with directions in a small plastic baggie.

BTW - I have picked up a Sheaffer LeSport ballpoint similar to yours. Mine is red with grey trim lines. They are a pretty solid pen and not as tiny as I first thought. These pens must be from the 1970's with that styling and colors!

Hubert

 



-- Edited by WriteAway on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 08:17:34 PM

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That's the pen, all right. Mine's a bit darker, less red, and the only "flaw" is the red-lettered imprint of "AL INMAN" on the cap. The original refill is still going strong; this was my carry pen yesterday.

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Still mostly doing pencils, here; the pens are mostly collateral damage.

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My Hallmark-Cross adapter will be here in "2-3 weeks" according to the e-mail I received this morning. It's coming to the house via FedEx because "FedEx won't deliver to a PO box." Two to three weeks via FedEx? And I've received FedEx *and* UPS packages to my PO box any number of times.

They could have dropped the thing into a padded mailer and sent it USPS, I would have had it in two days, and it probably would have cost them less.


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Maybe they are just very cautious promising delivery dates. Let's hope that it arrives sooner than what they say...

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You should see the order confirmation e-mail they sent me yesterday, with the "Projected Ship Date" shown as the day before, all the order dollar amounts (all zeroes), and a confirmation code to let me track the order at the Hallmark Web site, where the code returns an error. I'll be happy enough *if* it shows up.

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It doesn't seem like I went through more than just an e-mail request in 2008 to get mine. Times have changed, I guess...

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Clothes from Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh...
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Update: Yesterday (2013-06-13) I received an e-mail saying that the adapter had shipped via FedEx, one week after the previously mentioned expected ship date. The confirmation number still doesn't work, and neither does the FedEx tracking number.

Amateurs.

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Progress! The adapter was shipped yesterday, four days after Hallmark said it was shipped, but the FedEx tracking number now works, and delivery is expected by Thursday.

The Hallmark order number still does nothing.

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Well, it took nineteen days, but it arrived, in a large padded mailer, along with an instruction sheet (does anyone seriously need instructions for this?) and a nice "Thank You" card. Now all I have to do is avoid losing the thing before I actually need it ...

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Did you get the pen to work again? I had no trouble during the install on my pen, and it continues to work as it should with a good Cross refill ever since.



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Clothes from Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh...
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I tried it for fit, but as I mentioned before, the original, pressurized, Fisher-made refill is still working, so I'm covered in both directions.


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