Some Vintage Indian Pens Found In Kolkata Today.

[sanyalsoumitra]

I had been asking Mr. Riyaz Ali of Calcutta Pen Hospital for spare nibs and feeders. Finally he could find time to sort out old junk pens to retrieve various parts and gave me a call. From what was sorted out I picked up some very dirty old pens which are otherwise complete. Also found some nibs and feeders. This is how the 38 pieces of dirty pens look! Most of these were not even inked, a few have the plastic turned brittle and a few have their barrel gone slightly bent due to standing in the shelf for very long.

 

 

 

I spent one evening cleaning and polishing up these pens. These are mostly various models of Wilson, Artex and Swan and couple of unknown brands. This how the pens look after cleaning. Most have brand new nibs, not yet ink tested any. One or two pens have the ink sac wasted away, but most pens are good condition. One or two pen have nib damage- extra work!

 

This pick makes me very happy as this shows a period of Indian pens in the sixties to seventies, particularly what used to be commonly available in the Kolkata side. Later I would post individual photos.

 

I am sharing these for the viewers who particularly like old Indian pens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WateryFlow]

Wow good job Sanya!

I bet there's some real gems amongst those. Any plans to sell any on ebay or locally maybe?

[mhguda]

Wow, congratulations on a great haul, and good work on getting them looking so nice and cleaned up. Looking forward to your individual photos, and yes, would hope these turn up for sale somewhere - maybe even the FPN Classifieds?

[Zookie]

Very nice collection

[pumps100]

Bravo. You have done a great job! Enjoy them.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[sanyalsoumitra]

This pen is named Linda, model G 200, stamped made in Japan. Never knew about this pen. Can any one tell us more ? Price paid Rs 75 [ about $ 1.25 ]. Only minor oxidation damage on the gold cap, small pitting on the barrel end finial, all else is good. Aerometric filler works and the sac looks good. Nib is scratchy, needs tuning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2014 by sanyalsoumitra

[sanyalsoumitra]

Platinex 615N from Artex pen company. We used this pen in school, very good eyedropper pen. The nib is new, minor damage to clip plating due to flaking. Otherwise this pen is very well preserved. Neglected new old stock! Very happy to get one unit of this pen, nostalgic appeal for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

A brand called west end- never heard of this earlier. The pen looks similar to the Indian Pilot 57. The nib was damaged, straightened up the tynes. The pen seems well preserved, though the clip plating is faded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

_{Wilson Commander, paid Rs 50 for this. The cap has one dent and one oxidation damage. Everything else is very well preserved.}

_{This is eyedropper filling type, and a breather tube is fitted into the feeder. Cap clip spring working normal.}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

Wilson -Parker 21 design. Got five pens, all in good order, three gold cap and two chrome cap. Paid Rs 75 for each. All fillers work normal. Will need to try out thepen later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

Wilson, Parker 45 design. Two grey and chrome and one gold colour [ is this the coronet model? I have one Wilson coronet which has chequered barrel]. The aerometic filler in the gold one needs to be repaired, the sac has come off the sleeve and melted inside. The filler in the grey ones are OK. These apart all three are very well preserved.

 

 

 

 

 

[mhguda]

Impressive. Nice job on the nib straightening! And all these pens now look very good to me...

[sanyalsoumitra]

Some more of these pens follow.

[sanyalsoumitra]

Artex- sheafer student pen design.

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

Artex 75

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

Cruiser [ do not know the model number]

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

Deplomet [ interesting spelling!]

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

ERA [ do not know the model number]

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

No name pen 01-- can you identify?

 

 

 

 

[sanyalsoumitra]

Platinex 140