From the album: Mercian’s pens
Detail of the 14k gold ‘M’ nib on my Pelikan M400 in Brown Tortoiseshell from the early 1980s.
This M400 nib looks very similar to the M400 nibs from the later 1980s.
The most obvious difference is that the later nibs have a slightly larger gap between the Pelikan logo and the letter (in this case ‘M’) that indicates the nib’s width grade.