Lamy 27 Coloured Pens

[lawrenceg]

I have been looking at the "old" Lamy 27 and wondering what colours they come in?

 

I would be interested in knowing the colour variations available are, being:-

 

Same colour cap and barrel.

Barrel with different coloured cap (probably gold of silver coloured metal).

 

If you know how to, then photographs would be interesting and nice to see.

 

I was told that there were many colours but I have not seen too many on my travels, both on the internet and real life

 

 

[risingsun]

Here's an advertisement for the early version of the Lamy 27 with a more fully hooded nib. You can see some of the variety of the colors/options offered... I agree that the colored versions seem to be more difficult to find.

 

Edited December 19, 2014 by risingsun

[Namo]

https://sites.google.com/site/myu701/lamy27

[sirksael]

Myu's article gives a good summary, in addition there is also a demonstrator version.

[PointyThings]

Colors for the 27 are hard to nail down, partly because they varied during production lifetime and from one model variation to another.

 

Prior to mid-1962, the following colors were produced for plastic bodies and caps: black, burgundy, blue or teal, grey, some form of brown, and clear demonstrator. In metal there were gold-fill and solid gold models. No Sterling models that I'm aware of.

 

The burgundy and blue plastics seem to have been fairly consistent in color, but that isn't the case for browns and greys.

 

I have three shades of brown/tan in my collection, ranging from a dark chocolate brown (a 27 made for the Spanish market) to the frequently-seen lighter tan. I also recall two distinct shades of grey, although I can't seem to find one of them at the moment. Even the demonstrators came in clear and blue-tinted plastic.

 

Although Lamy made a light green/aqua Ratio in the early 1960s, I can't find any evidence of a 27 being produced in that color.

 

After mid-1962, the colors were limited to black, burgundy, blue/teal, and the all gold-filled model. I don't know if Lamy continued to produce a solid gold 27.

Edited January 17, 2015 by KarlBarndt