D O M Nib

[FredRydr]

I've done a bit of research, such as Joshua's "Alphabet Soup" webpage, but I cannot find an explanation for the nib designation on my dotted Pelikan vintage nib: "D O M" with a subscript "+" below and between the O and M.

 

Based on the nib's attributes, it would make sense if it was simply marked "DM." But what could it mean?

 

Fred

[Plexipens]

Another, widely used special nib is made for manifold (making carbon copies). For this purpose Pelikan started by making regular nibs more rigid, but they didn't differ visually from other nib widths. The nib width is denoted by D, followed by the width (DEF (Geman: Durchschreibefeder = Manifold, ExtraFine), DF, DM and DOM are common. Like the other nib widths imprints, the nib width was not always marked on the nib itself. Often, the nib width is only found at the barrrels end.

----- https://www.pelikan-collectibles.com/en/Pelikan/Nibs/Nib-units-since-1929/index.html

Edited July 16, 2017 by Plexipens

[sargetalon]

Are you able to post a picture? Does the nib have any oblique properties at all?

[FredRydr]

I get DM. What does the O in D O M designate? It's not an oblique. And what's the subscript?

[christof]

D = Durchschreib*

O = Oblique**

M = Medium

 

* "Durchschreiben" means making carbon copies. Probably a quite hard nib, right?

** ....originally the nib was an oblique.

 

C.

Edited July 17, 2017 by christof

[FredRydr]

Thanks, Christof. Someone must have "de-obliqued" the nib.

 

Fred

[Soot]

Here are photo references of the DOM if anyone is interested.

 

https://flic.kr/p/nw9E6q

https://flic.kr/p/nNkZji

 

Album here >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/30160550@N08/albums/72157644524375180

[christof]

Here are photo references of the DOM if anyone is interested.

 

https://flic.kr/p/nw9E6q

https://flic.kr/p/nNkZji

 

Album here >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/30160550@N08/albums/72157644524375180

You have them all, right?

c.

[Soot]

You have them all, right?

c.

 

It's impossible to have them all -- particularly the undocumented ones. The ones that are documented on the nib-type leaflet, I have owned all but a few at one time or another.

 

Special H & D nibs are the interesting ones to find, because I "think" they were made to order. Not exactly standard nibs. S nibs are interesting too.