Oooh, it does look different...pretty too! I wonder how old it is? I really like the opals on it... since there's nothing on the national website about the history of the quill, I did a search and found this page, which gives an interesting history of the quill. It mentions early quills being made with opals like the one on ebay.
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark...437/quill.html
AZ-AlphaXi, are you bidding on it?
(edited b/c I messed up the link)