A Lucky Find: Matador 120 "presbitero-Click" With M Steel Nib.

[pablowish]

Hi all, this is my first "review", I'm not a collector or expert, just a casual user...so don't expect anything too "technical"

 

Yesterday I found this pen in a drawer of my uncle's old desk (those drawes weren't touched since he passed away four years ago)....I think it hasn't seen the sunlight for more than 40 years:

 

Black resin cap with a decò clip and a simple ring in golden metal, black resin barrel with transparent azure ink window, piston filler mechanism. On the side of the barrel is engraved "PRESBITERO - click BREV. MATADOR"

 

 

The nib is a steel M, golden coloured, with a smooth action and a nice flex!

 

The pen is in very good condition, except for the cap that has a small crack on the top, and some signs and bits.

The barrel feels solid and well done. It is a classic and simple german piston-filler, not an expensive pen, so no fancy stuff around, but just a functional and concrete writer (and I like this!).

 

The piston filling system is working perfectly, the pen was sitting there for an eternity, I just cleaned it with warm water to remove the old ink stains, then inked it (with Private Reserve Cosmic Cobalt)...and it was perfect!

 

No leaks, no skipping...the nib is smooth and flexy, a joy to use!

 

 

It is far flexier and smoother then my Noodler's Creaper, and quite flexier and a bit broader than my Estie 9048 (but is is an EF, so it's obvious).

 

I think this was my Grandpa's Fp (Mom's father)...I never known him (he died long time before my birth) and I must confess I'm kinda emotioned using it

 

 

Here are some (bad) pics and write samples on simple note paper...sorry for the quality (mobile pics).

Edited May 20, 2014 by pablowish

[playtime]

that's a beauty!

 

the Matador Click is a surprisingly capable pen, often with a wondrously flexible nib - as yours so beautifully demonstrates!

 

Love love love Matadors! I hope your family heirloom enjoys many years of use:)

 

J

Edited May 20, 2014 by playtime

[pablowish]

Thank you J!

 

You just remembered me that I forgot to mention the "click" feature: the cap is no screw-type, you just pull it away and "click" it back...a very normal design you can say, but I read on wiki that in their time Matador's Click were probably the first Fp with this kind of design (and in fact is was patented).

 

When I picked the pen form the drawer, I instinctively tried to unscrew the cap, as I do in my other vintage pens...I was surprised that it is actually a pull-off type.