Does Anyone Know What Kind Of Fountain Pen This Is?

November 3, 2013

Most interesting post. Fountain pens and their users = insight into human (and inhumane) nature. More civil and certainly more enlightening than attending a high tea at the Orangery in Hyde Park in London!

Edited November 3, 2013 by Sinistral1

July 23, 2015

Hi everyone

I restore old fountain pens and collect. I have just acquired a fountain pen to restore that may be a very likely candidate for a pen Hitler would use. It is an Arengo piston filler a filling system the Germans perfected. Arengo was a German pen manufacturer that started production in Germany around 1935 and closed down in 1940 and so are quite rare pens.

When I have finished restoring I will post a photograph.

August 21, 2015

In my opinion the pen is a typical German-made safety pen. The threading of the pen is covered by the finger, but the section is formed like that of a safety. If you compare it with e.g. a Pelikan 100 you see the difference. Also typical for a German-made safety pen is the riffled part near the end of the pen. That is the place where the washer sits. The smooth part behind that is the knob to move the nib. It doesn't look like a small pen. More like a no. 4. Pens with these design elements were made by Montblanc, but also by a lot of other German companies, e.g. Goldfink. It was certainly not a Soennecken and a Kaweco. They didn't make pens with such a riffled part at the end.

A few examples of pens with this style:

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=08122

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=08210

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=08275

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=08278

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=16039

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=60122

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=04045

http://penboard.de/shop/searchdb?srchvaluedb=60010

You see on these pens also the thicker end, which can be seen as shadow on the photo.

January 21, 2016

It looks like a generic ebonite pen, AKA an artistic rendering of a fountain pen.

The nib looks small to be a Montblanc 138 (or equivalent 1930's Montblanc)
To my knowledge, Montblanc pens of that era tended to be fatter in the section?

You have to remember, during this time only fountain pens would be used by this type of man on the go. Thus, it would be like an artist of today painting a picture of someone using a ballpoint.
You would not spend so much time trying to get the details correct to match the brand. You would simply convey the use of a pen.

That's why I think this is just a generic sketch of a fountain pen.

January 21, 2016

I have no expertise in German pens but looking at the pictures would agree that it is a German safety pen. From the pictures posted by Cepasaccus a Goldfink looks most likely as it has a round breather hole. I think closer attention could be given to the clip shape by those that know and which pens had that profile.

Whether a photo or print I cannot say but would observe that it, like the other photos shown, would have been posed rather than natural so the pen position would have had no relationship to the signature other than to say that he had written it.