Adding To The Flock

[stoen]

Hi, fellow birdcatchers,

 

I am very impressed at the recent posts! So many beautiful pens, so many good writers! So much good taste and care! Here’s my humble contribution:

 

I might have also posted this photo in another thread, but it would look cool also in this context, as they are among my newest additions and they look nice next to each other - two birds at the sunny side of the inkwell:

The upper one is among the gentlest, most delicate writers I ever got hold of: a 1934 model 100 with a flexible EEF nib. When I found it I couldn’t believe at what I saw. There’s more to it than just an “early model 100” myth.

 

The lower one is a brown 1973 or 74 400NN by Merz & Krell, I already wrote about in this thread, IMHO, one of the most beautiful Pelikan brand pens ever made.

 

Good luck and keep on catching good birds!

🙂

[halffriedchicken]

I finally got my first Pelikan pens: 2 classic m200s made in W Germany, a newer m200 with 5 nib units (an italic, a 2mm, a 1.5mm, and two 1mm stubs). They were used and abused, crusted with India ink. But I was able to clean them up and now they all write well. I decided to change out the nibs to a few loose nibs that I had, so they now have in them a Waterman Ideal #2, a Swan #2, and a Parker nib. I modified Esterbrook nib units to use the ebonite feeds in them and I am very happy with the results (I posted how I modified the Esterbrook collar to fit the m200 in another thread).

[Tom Kellie]

 

Pelikan Souverän M405 Blue-Black EF

[alfredop]

Congratulations, thee Blue-Black M405 is really exceptional looking.

 

Alfredo 

 

 

[N1003U]

10 hours ago, Tom Kellie said:

 

Pelikan Souverän M405 Blue-Black EF

Nice-looking piece, Tom. I debated a long time, and I ultimately went with the blue M400. Now I am wondering again…😀

 

#firstworldproblems

[carola]

10 hours ago, N1003U said:

Nice-looking piece, Tom. I debated a long time, and I ultimately went with the blue M400. Now I am wondering again…😀

 

#firstworldproblems

 

I am in team blue MX05 (for me, the M805). I think the silver trim fits it soooo much better than the gold trim. Didn´t have to think about it for more than a minute.

[Tom Kellie]

1 hour ago, carola said:

 

I am in team blue MX05 (for me, the M805). I think the silver trim fits it soooo much better than the gold trim. Didn´t have to think about it for more than a minute.

 

~ @carola:

 

As it happens, I'm also in team blue MX05.

 

Thanks to your kind comment, I've made a photograph this afternoon of the pair together.

 

I'm so pleased that you also enjoy these attractive models.

 

Tom K.

 

 

Two in Blue

 

Pelikan Souverän M805 Blue Black IB and M405 Blue Black EF

 

 

[N1003U]

21 hours ago, carola said:

I am in team blue MX05 (for me, the M805). I think the silver trim fits it soooo much better than the gold trim. Didn´t have to think about it for more than a minute.

 

19 hours ago, Tom Kellie said:

As it happens, I'm also in team blue MX05.

 

Thanks to your kind comment, I've made a photograph this afternoon of the pair together.

 

I'm so pleased that you also enjoy these attractive models.

 

Tom K.

 

Two in Blue

 

Pelikan Souverän M805 Blue Black IB and M405 Blue Black EF

 

 

 

Yea, yea, I get it. The silver with blue is a lovely combination...but I still like my Blue M400, too!

I guess with regard to Rhodium trim, I am in team grey MX05 (or alternatively, I suppose, team Stresemann).

 

Nice pictures of the silver/blue birds, Tom.

 

 

[carola]

2 hours ago, N1003U said:

 

 

Yea, yea, I get it. The silver with blue is a lovely combination...but I still like my Blue M400, too!

I guess with regard to Rhodium trim, I am in team grey MX05 (or alternatively, I suppose, team Stresemann).

 

Nice pictures of the silver/blue birds, Tom.

 

 

Team Stresemann? Always! Forever! This grey bird is probably the King of Stylish Understatement.

[manolo]

Just bought two m200s: a petrol-marble and a ruby red, both with M nib. I am using the petrol and I am delighted with the writing experience: quite similar to old pelikans from the 40s-50s and so, in a modern pen. Soft, maybe bouncy but still not flexible, great flow and not very wide (as other pelikan M nibs). 

So now I have three M200s, because I keep a mint yellow Citroenpers since more than 10 years.

[sansenri]

I know the feeling, I love the bouncy M200 nibs!

A M215 Rings has just joined my flock, I was missing M215s so far...

(no pics yet but will add when this gloomy/rainy early Autumn weather gives a break and some good lighting shines through my window...)

[stoen]

On 6/2/2021 at 10:53 AM, stoen said:

Hello!

 

To put quite frankly, a Pelikan 100 may be a rather praised vintage pen, yet it isn’t a pen that uncommon. Many of us have at least one of them, so we know how it looks, feels and writes.

 

Yet, I somehow consider my new find possibly worth showing and sharing a shot: a beautifully preserved “third generation” pen (1931-33), with a rare deep green binde (sleeve), such as they used to put on the first few generation models, with bakelite and early celluloid barrels. This one is celluloid.

The only mismatch is a OM CN nib, from a wartime repair, possibly.

 

Hope you’ll like it.

🙂

Hello,

Please, pardon my self-quoting. I just meant to say that the little green pen which had a nib mismatch now got the right nib, a 1933 windrose stamped 14k B nib. It was a bit hard to find, but I’m proud of making this June’s addition to the flock complete by now, and feel like sharing the happiness of having the little green pen restored back to its original beauty.

🙂

[manolo]

9 minutes ago, stoen said:

Hello,

Please, pardon my self-quoting. I just meant to say that the little green pen which had a nib mismatch now got the right nib, a 1933 windrose stamped 14k B nib. It was a bit hard to find, but I’m proud of making this June’s addition to the flock complete by now, and the little green pen restored to its original beauty.

🙂

Congratulations for the pen and your effort in finding the correct nib for it. A little piece of history.

[stoen]

4 hours ago, manolo said:

Congratulations for the pen and your effort in finding the correct nib for it. A little piece of history.

Thank you for your kind words and making the point. One of my reasons for this post is in trying to encourage fellow members in looking for forsaken, abandoned, broken pens, eventually rescuing and restoring their function, form and history correctly and fairly.

 

It is always a joyful and touching moment to me, inking a restored pen. It’s worth it!

🙂

[Nyanzilla]

Finally I got my grail pen.

[alfredop]

Today in a flea market I found this two beautiful Pelikan 400NN (in green and gray striped colors).

 

 

Alfredo

[stoen]

4 hours ago, alfredop said:

Today in a flea market I found this two beautiful Pelikan 400NN (in green and gray striped colors).

Congrats on both!

🙂

BTW, the grey-colored one seems to be a rather rare pen. Can you please post few more pictures (nib view as well)? What’s the color of the caps and turning knobs?

[alfredop]

6 minutes ago, stoen said:

Congrats on both!

🙂

BTW, the grey-colored one seems to be a rather rare pen. Can you please post few more pictures (nib view as well)? What’s the color of the caps and turning knobs?

 

Caps and turning knobs are black, nib seems to me a standard nib of that time (it is an F with an hint of flex).

 

here some photos (sorry, it is late here and no more sun lighting):

 

[alfredop]

Barrel has a very good clarity (it is filled with plain water in the photo).

 

 

Alfredo

[lionelc]

a thing of beauty @Nyanzilla