I Found A Nos Platinum Piston Fountain Pen. Help Me Identify It!

[arcadeflow]

I have found a new old stock Platinum piston fountain pen for sale in a well hidden local importer shop. It cost me something around $15 in my country's currency. I took some pictures so you can help me figure out which pen is this! It is in perfect shape, it came without a box but I took a picture of the sticker it came with. I would guess it is from the 80s, but it looks a bit old fashioned, could be older. But somehow the lightness of the resin and the black piano finish makes me believe it is not that old. I don't have much experience with vintage pens anyway, so I could be completely wrong. Is it possible that Platinum rebranded this model from some European producer? The nib feels Japanese though, it is a fine nib finer than a Pilot steel fine from a Prera, and it has a bit of give, maybe similar to the Platinum Cool/Balance in feeling. The nib seems to be gold plated steel, and the "iridium" point is very small, you can hardly see the silver color, it almost seems like they plated over the tip. I searched around and I only found a Platinum piston filler from the 90s, a special edition.

[hari317]

Platinum Regent made by Senator.

 

Read more about it here in this excellent blog post:

 

http://estilofilos.blogspot.jp/2013/07/german-platinum.html

[arcadeflow]

Great, thanks!

[Keyless Works]

Cool! Never seen one of these. Thanks for sharing.

[Algester]

Do take note Platinum only made 1 piston filler and it was also a limited edition too and it had a celuloid body

[rudyhou]

this looks very nice. i like Platinum/Nakaya. i have always wondered if they would ever make a piston-filing one. they should really make more of these.

[Algester]

http://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2014/07/last-piston-by-platinum.html

they did make one but.. way back then

[rudyhou]

http://estilofilos.blogspot.com/2014/07/last-piston-by-platinum.html

they did make one but.. way back then

 

thank you for the reference. i can only wish to get my hands on one of those in the future. preferably one in wood. that would be awesome.