Focusing on a couple of glass display cabinets, Steven Ritter, Excelsior Springs, goes over plans with staff about the coming auction’s agenda, starting with a lifetime’s collection of coins, followed by writing pens and jewelry, and then back-and-forth calls between inkwells and watches. A Hardin antique shop owner, Lonny McIntyre, targets the pens arrayed at the Ray County Veterans Memorial Community Building. He has a good eye for dip and fountain pens, including those with gold-plated nibs and mother-of-pearl handles. He knows the makers, too – Mont Blanc, Shaeffer, Eversharp, Parker, Easterbook and Le Boeuf. McIntyre says he developed an interest in collecting pens years ago. “They were in grandpa’s junk drawer,” he says. “Those people never threw anything away and old pens and the pencils were always in there, and they were just kind of fascinating and I just started getting a few.” McIntyre did more than buy pens. “I learned how to rebuild them, so you could actually write with…