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Mercian

Pilot (in 2023 at least) actively prevents its Authorised Dealers from selling this pen to people who are in the UK 🤬
 

In continental Europe, similar-looking pens are sold by Pilot under the name “Pilot MR Retro Pop - Metallic Violet - Ellipse Ring’.

Those pens are chambered to take European ‘Short International Cartridges’.

 

This pen is chambered to take Pilot’s proprietary cartridges.

As such, I believe that it would have been sold in the American & Australasian markets as a ‘Pilot Metropolitan’ (perhaps still as a “Retro Pop” etc).

 

I believe that it would have been sold in Japan as a ‘Pilot Cocoon’.

 

This pen came to me here in England from Australia, so I am calling it a Metropolitan.

 

My chief interest in acquiring it was the fact that it is fitted with one of Pilot’s ‘CM’ (Cursive Medium’?) nibs.

Although Pilot sells pens that have these nibs to the American and Australasian markets, the company, in its ‘ineffable wisdom’, once again actively prevents the sale of pens with these nibs to people in the UK 🤬🤬

 

This pen was - very generously - gifted to me by another FPN member 😊

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Mercian

Posted (edited)

Another Correction:

Having just seen this webpage, I have learned that this pen was in fact sold as a Pilot ‘MR3 Retro Pop’ fountain pen, in the ‘Violet Ellipse’ finish.


Or should that be a Pilot ‘MR3’ fountain pen, in the ‘Violet Ellipse’ finish from the ‘Retro Pop’ range… 🤔🤷‍♂️

 

I reckon I’ll start calling this pen an ‘MR3’.
But I’d never refer to any Pilot pen as an ‘MR2’, because that was the name of a mid-engined RWD 2-seater sports car that was made by Toyota.
Whose name was unintentionally-hilarious in the French market, so the company had to elide the ‘2’ from its name there.

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AmandaW

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It was this one, bought from Jetpens. Therefore I call it a Metropolitan cos that's what it says there and on my invoice!

 

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Mercian

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8 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

It was this one, bought from Jetpens. Therefore I call it a Metropolitan cos that's what it says there and on my invoice!

 


:thumbup: :D

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AmandaW

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I will add here, for completeness, I did deliberately order my trio of Metropolitans from the US to be certain I would be getting the model with the ordinary Pilot cartridge / converter. All Pilot pens in this home take Pilot thingys cos I do not need to add any more confusion to that which I already suffer...

 

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