Family Photos Of Your Flock - Please Add Yours!

[Christopher Godfrey]

Goede dag, Hans, en dank U wel!  Ja, dit is so...('37, '38, '39?)...ik weet het niet...

[Hans01]

2 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

Goede dag, Hans, en dank U wel!  Ja, dit is so...('37, '38, '39?)...ik weet het niet...

Your Dutch is better than my English😀

[stoen]

Here’s a family photo of my currently active pre-ww2 flock (1931-1939). Not so big, yet a very special flock of excellent writers, for my taste. Each is very unique in feel and nib grind, including: St, EEF, EF, F, OF, O, O8, M, OM, B. From flex to moderately flex, springy and responsive…

 

Inks:

4001: Royal Blue, Blue Black, Violet, Brillant Brown, Brillant Green.

Edelstein: Smoky Quartz

Diamine: Sepia, Oxblood, Sherwood Green

Schaeffer: Skrip Red

 

Hope you’ll like it…

🙂

[como]

37 minutes ago, stoen said:

Here’s a family photo of my currently active pre-ww2 flock (1931-1939). Not so big, yet a very special flock of excellent writers, for my taste. Each is very unique in feel and nib grind, including: St, EEF, EF, F, OF, O, O8, M, OM, B. From flex to moderately flex, springy and responsive…

 

Inks:

4001: Royal Blue, Blue Black, Violet, Brillant Brown, Brillant Green.

Edelstein: Smoky Quartz

Diamine: Sepia, Oxblood

Schaeffer: Skrip Red

 

Hope you’ll like it…

🙂

@stoen Wow, these are stunning! Beautiful collection, congratulations!! And thank you for sharing.

[stoen]

18 hours ago, como said:

And thank you for sharing.

You’re welcome, the gratitude is all mine.

🙂

Three of them, the yellow 100, the green 100 and the red 100N used to belong to my family estate. As for the rest, some of them I’ve been “hunting” for years, before having collected a flock that’s really up to my taste. Of course, my approach was a “modest budget” one.

🙂

So, be a patient hunter, and keep your eyes open. You never know what and when will show up, and if you have a chance, try before you buy…

 

BTW, meanwhile I’ve also learned quite a bit about the restoration, by carefully watching those who knew and by asking the right questions. Some individual research also took part.

Patience at first place, I dare say…

[flodoc]

I'll start with one that has a fairly unique presentation. A near mint M400 green stripe with 14C EF nib and original sealed bottle of blue ink, in the original box. The cap seal on the bottle actually has four chicks, something I had not noticed until today!

[flodoc]

Most of the rest of my flock. Not pictured are: 2 M750s, an M760, M400 blue stripe, M250 burgundy, M250 brown tortoise and M250 amber demonstrator.

[N1003U]

9 minutes ago, flodoc said:

Most of the rest of my flock. Not pictured are: 2 M750s, an M760, M400 blue stripe, M250 burgundy, M250 brown tortoise and M250 amber demonstrator.

 

The city series M6xxs are always a pleasure for me to see.

[Hans01]

 Beautifull collection. Did I see the Concert in there?

[flodoc]

6 hours ago, Hans01 said:

 Beautifull collection. Did I see the Concert in there?

Yes, it was a grail pen for me and the pen I paid the most for. 

[Christopher Godfrey]

@stoen: Beautiful collection.  That 100N on the extreme right-hand side -- is it of Italian manufacture, perhaps?  The clip makes me wonder...

[stoen]

Hello, again,

 

if twins can be considered family, here they are - the 101N twins:

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[Christopher Godfrey]

Lovely twins!  stoen, I have changed my mind about the 100N on the right of your photo up the page: not Italian, but a Gdansk-made model, I think?

[stoen]

7 hours ago, Christopher Godfrey said:

a Gdansk-made model, I think?

Thanks for your favorable comment, @Christopher Godfrey. I don’t think any of them is a Gdańsk model: Gdańsk models have diamond shaped clips, and a single, narrow cap ring.

 

These two are pretty standard, mainstream models, much as depicted in the Pelikan 1938 calatog, only rather rare by now.

 

 

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I have changed my mind about the 100N on the right of your photo up the page…

That one has a “Gdansk style” clip indeed, but the standard two ring cap tube. I believe it originates from the Vienna factory, as far as I can trace its ownership history.

 

As far as I know, the robust, diamond shaped clip was installed more commonly in the late thirties…

 

The other possibility is that it used to be a Gdańsk model originally but the original cap tube got replaced at some point. This current cap tube is ebonite.

 

Yet another possibility is that a clip broke and got replaced at some point for a more robust “Gdańsk style” clip.

🙂

[amberleadavis]

Here is part of the family that is at work.

 

It's also a good size comparison.

 

M600, M400, M200 the Go and a Level 5.

[amberleadavis]

And here are some demonstrators.

 

I was introducing them to the new to me M600.

 

I have the old clear demo m200 and the modern m200 clear demo.

[Waverly]

My flock as of February, 2022:

 

 

[Tom Kellie]

~ A young friend in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China asked me to prepare

comparison photos showing a Pelikan Souverän M300 EF pen.

 

 

Capped Comparison

 

 

 

Posted Comparison

 

 

 

Nib Comparison

 

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting comparison.  What are the other two pens in the photos?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Tom Kellie]

~ @inkstainedruth:

 

From top to bottom:

 

•  Pelikan Souverän M800 Brown-Black IB, with a Fritz Schimpf Italic Grind

 

•  Pelikan Souverän M405 Stresemann EF

 

•  Pelikan Souverän M300 Green EF

 

All three are reliable writers without any issues.

 

      Tom K.