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Edelstein Topaz from 1990/91 M800 ‘F’ vs 4001 Blue-Black from 1954 Pelikan 400 ‘F’
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From the album: Mercian’s Miscellany
I took this photo to show the contrast in the widths of the lines that are laid-down by my 1954 Pelikan 400’s ‘F’ nib and my 1990/91 M800’s ‘M’ nib. The paper is 90gsm Oxford ‘Optik’ (not the more-recent ‘Optik+’), on a sheet taken from an Oxford ‘Campus’ ‘Reporters’ Pad’. The separation of the ruled lines is 8mm.© Mercian
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From the album: Poems copied out by Mercian
This photo shows my hastily-copied-out transcription of the poem ‘A song for England’, by Andrew Salkey. He was born in Panama, to Jamaican parents, but he moved to England in the 1950s. He worked as a teacher here, as well being a poet and novelist. I wrote this poem out on a sheet of 80gsm Rhodia ‘High Grade Vellum’, taken from a No. 13 Bloc Pad. The pen is my Pelikan 400, from 1954. Its ‘F’ nib has a cursive-italic grind, which was the standard Pelikan nib-grind in that era. It is delightfully crisp, and the 14k gold nib is ‘springy’ too 😊 The ink is Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black. The ebonite feed that supplies the ink to the nib if this pen is so ‘wet’ that it really puts the ‘black’ into ‘blue-black’ 😁 It also overcomes the capacity of Pelikan Edelstein Sapphire to demonstrate ‘shading’, rendering that ink as a solid, bright, ‘gemstone’ blue.© Mercian
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