Imperial Pelletier 227

[EdwardSouthgate]

Just won this and was wondering if anyone knows their history . Have read that they were Dutch made but the nib is marked Brussels .

 

 

 

Edited December 24, 2018 by EdwardSouthgate

[EdwardSouthgate]

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[Bo Bo Olson]

Parker never trademarked the Arrow, in someone used it before. Others used it before and after.

 

 

Is a great looking pen....and you know more about it than me. Looks late '30's due to the 'shorter' final.

 

Your collection is rapidly becoming

Keep it up.

 

IMO those pens made off of mandrels are so, so much nicer than those P-51 and later pressed plastic pens.

Edited December 24, 2018 by Bo Bo Olson

[Azuniga]

Well, it seems we are after the same kind of pens... first Arengo, then another German and now this Belgian pen...

I have a very curious pen made out of three: Swell (French), Rally nib (France) and a Belgian Pelletier clip...

While looking for information about the three different parts I discovered (at the Belgian pen show last September 30th), it is a Belgian Pen.

 

It is a beautiful pen, not convinced the clip is the right one but it goes beyond my knowledge...

[EdwardSouthgate]

Azuniga ,

 

How about posting some pictures of yours ?? I have read a short post or two on some of their later (?) pens but this is the first older one I have seen . It was said in another thread that they were a small company that went bankrupt about 1951 or so . The other few pens I have seen pictures of have been bullet ended which to me says mid to late 50's pen or later .

 

Since there does not appear to be a lot of info posted on this brand it might rate a sticky post so info can gather as it trickles in . I am getting more interested in brands that are not well known but made really fine pens , I already have several and hope for this to be another . It's pretty enough but to be a fine pen it has to have a certain feel in the hand and manners of a certain level just like a woman . Like my grandmother always said when I brought a gal home for the first time " Beauty is only skin deep but Ugly's to the bone " .

[EdwardSouthgate]

Bo ,

 

Seller said some Flex but also called it a medium . Looks awful keen tipped and long tined for anything more than a fine before the flex kicks in . Need to get Francis to post whatever he knows about this brand , he mentions it in his introduction post in 2005 so I am hoping he has further knowledge he can impart .

 

Look also at the two British pens I posted last night.

 

Eddie

Edited December 24, 2018 by EdwardSouthgate

[Azuniga]

Azuniga ,

 

How about posting some pictures of yours ?? I have read a short post or two on some of their later (?) pens but this is the first older one I have seen . It was said in another thread that they were a small company that went bankrupt about 1951 or so . The other few pens I have seen pictures of have been bullet ended which to me says mid to late 50's pen or later .

 

Since there does not appear to be a lot of info posted on this brand it might rate a sticky post so info can gather as it trickles in . I am getting more interested in brands that are not well known but made really fine pens , I already have several and hope for this to be another . It's pretty enough but to be a fine pen it has to have a certain feel in the hand and manners of a certain level just like a woman . Like my grandmother always said when I brought a gal home for the first time " Beauty is only skin deep but Ugly's to the bone " .

 

In this thread Francis mentions Pelletier half way down of the page…

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/4388-hello-from-flanders-in-belgium/?hl=pelletier&do=findComment&comment=40962

 

Here are four images; of my strange combination, I loved it and it was not expensive so I got it thinking one day I will be able to reconstruct it into three pens…

I am also into what some name "second brands" since the first ones have become so expensive…

 

 

 

 

 

I will take a look to the English pen you mentioned...

[EdwardSouthgate]

If that red beauty writes as good as it looks I would leave it as it is . Originality is nice but what I value most is that it writes like I want it to and looks good doing it . I am not a true collector . I just like to write and want to be able to use a different pen every day for a year and not have to use the same one twice in a year unless I just want to .

Edited December 25, 2018 by EdwardSouthgate

[Bo Bo Olson]

A collector has three...the lucky has one or two. and a few more fine singletons.

 

It maters only that the pen writes well.....that it is still beautiful is a bonus.

[EdwardSouthgate]

A collector has three...the lucky has one or two. and a few more fine singletons.

 

It maters only that the pen writes well.....that it is still beautiful is a bonus.

 

Yup ! Merry Christmas .

[Azuniga]

If that red beauty writes as good as it looks I would leave it as it is . Originality is nice but what I value most is that it writes like I want it to and looks good doing it . I am not a true collector . I just like to write and want to be able to use a different pen every day for a year and not have to use the same one twice in a year unless I just want to .

 

It writes a good as it looks, I love it and use it often.

Most probably it will stay as it is, since it is very hard to find what is missing. First time I heard of Swell, I have an advertising of Rally and it looks great; now thanks to this thread and your pen I know now how a Pelletier looks like... by the way, the inferior blind cap form is very similar to the one of Grief.