Family Photos Of Your Flock - Please Add Yours!

[stoen]

Thanks for your kind words, @oregano.

 

Here’s one more “intimate” family photo: the little red pen in company of its six years “older cousin”…

 

 

and the “older cousin’s” nib:

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 2023 by stoen
nib photo added

[Toolattack]

16 hours ago, mana said:

Thank you! And wonderful to hear that! Pelikans are great pens, both as writers and collectible items

Thanks @mana 

[Toolattack]

12 hours ago, stoen said:

I fully agree.

 

I realized the beauty and writing performance of vintage Pelikans when I first took some courage to restore my grandfather’s little red pen (the bottom pen in the picture), which was left forlorn in a drawer once he had passed away. It took me some time, practice and commitment to learn enough to do it - I could not have afforded a failure. It is hard to describe the sensation when it eventually sprung back to life revealing its full beauty and writing pleasure.

🙂

Back then I haven’t imagined that quite soon there would be a flock. Here’s another family photo of the previously posted “tortoise quartet”, uncapped:

 

And here’s the nib of the little red pen, my first Pelikan. 

Pelikan Collectibles lists it as “Pelikan 100N Nib with Special Imprint”:

https://www.pelikan-collectibles.com/en/Pelikan/Nibs/index.html

 

 

My point is that some 15 years ago I haven’t had a notion of how much pleasure and insight into writing culture would collecting and repairing forsaken and broken old Pelikan pens give me. It’s like giving them another chance to live…

 

I wish you good luck, nice discoveries and writing pleasure @Toolattack!

🙂

 

Wonderful story @stoen thank you for sharing 

[mana]

With the addition of the IBIS 130 and a second early production 140 my vintage Pelikan fountain pens seem to have outgrown their coop… the only saving grace are the pens that are up or on top of the others, they are my EDC trio housed in a separate Pelikan hardshell case… so there actually is room for a few more… 🤪

 

…before I have to get a new case 🤣

[ajoe]

Their names from left to right: Baby Pen, Papa Pen, Mama Pen

 

[stoen]

On 2/28/2023 at 3:59 PM, mana said:

my vintage Pelikan fountain pens seem to have outgrown their coop…

That’s how it should be, I guess…

🙂

Among the flock members I’ve spotted few special, rare ones, such as the black 300 (the fourth in the bottom row - is its clip an original “300 clip”?). The photo resolution is a bit inconclusive.

Is the rightmost in the top row an actual pre-war 101N?

[mana]

15 hours ago, stoen said:

That’s how it should be, I guess…

🙂

Among the flock members I’ve spotted few special, rare ones, such as the black 300 (the fourth in the bottom row - is its clip an original “300 clip”?). The photo resolution is a bit inconclusive.

Is the rightmost in the top row an actual pre-war 101N?

Prew-war 101N? Nope, post-war.

 

That ”300” is actually a hybrid between a Gimborn 150 (cap) and 500NN Black Striped (the rest).
 

They lost their respective parts so I joined those in a union of convenience ”’till future purchases set them apart”. But honestly, I really like that combination and think that it could have been something seen from Pelikan if they had retained that teardrop shaped clip.

[stoen]

6 hours ago, mana said:

Pre-war 101N? Nope, post-war.

Thanks for your explanation.

 

 

[mana]

4 hours ago, stoen said:

Thanks for your explanation.

 

 

Here are a couple of higher resolution pics of it > https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzh6lAjhqKW/

[carola]

19 hours ago, mana said:

Here are a couple of higher resolution pics of it > https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzh6lAjhqKW/

 

Nice! And also the doggo in full size. 😁

[mana]

1 hour ago, carola said:

Nice! And also the doggo in full size. 😁

Yes, in quite a few pictures/posts there 😅

[oregano]

Here are some quick pictures of my current Pelikan collection (minus one m205 ruby red not pictured, and two incoming, the m120 iconic blue and a special 100n tortoiseshell). Yesterday marked 10 years in this 'hobby' for me (largely thanks to FPN)! The white tortoise m400, which I discovered a few months in, was my gateway into Pelikan, and nothing quite compared to that. I knew enough then to recognize how special the transparent stripes were.

 

After having gradually sold off my vintage Pelikans a few years ago, thinking they were too fragile, I added a 101n to my collection at the DC show last year, which has the best nib in my collection (a very flexible one) and reignited my love of vintage. Now that Pelikan is going non-transparent, I don't know how many more modern pens I will get. I am looking forward to discovering more vintage pens and their unique nibs. I recently added a very special 500 set purchased in advance of my upcoming birthday. I look forward to picking up another 101n this year at the next show, and others down the road! 

 

Some of my favorites:

[stoen]

Hello,

These are the two I’m very happy to have in my flock:

- a decent, standard 100N w. M nib

 

- a nearly mint, rare, dark tortoise 101N, with dark green acetate barrel and one of a kind ST nib, so sensitive it can write from hairline to BB and back for hours.

🙂

 

Both are from 1938, according to the parts and make.

[inkstainedruth]

That dark tortoise 101N is GORGEOUS!    I've never seen a tortoise of ANY vintage that has the cap finial be the tortoise material as well....  The nib is just an added bonus.  

Nice find!  I'm COMPLETELY jealous!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[stoen]

7 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I've never seen a tortoise of ANY vintage that has the cap finial be the tortoise material as well....

Thanks for the compliments and other nice words @inkstainedruth. The tortoise cap tops do exist regularly, and I’ve seen a few of them, although a dark variation with a black cap top also exsists.

A photo would hardly do it justice. All sort of reddish dark brown, almost black hues just shine from it and catch the eye in a way no other pen does. Next to a “regular tortoise”, not only does it look dark, but the celluloid pattern is so different from a “regular tortoise” that one coud never swap the caps accidentally. Doing so would make both pens look like frankenpens.

🙂

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The nib is just an added bonus.  

Yes, one can say so, but I’m biased toward looking at things the other way around. I regularly use my pens for writing, signing documents, annotating, making sketches, etc… …last but not least, for taking a break from computers.

 

Thanks again. I wish you some good “tortoise” finds soon! Keep posted.

[christof]

9 x Pelikan 400 + 1 x Pelikan 500:

 

 

...the 400 Deskpen is not on the picture:

 

 

Pelikan 140 Family (with a 350 Pencil):

 

[carola]

Beautiful pens, beautiful pictures.

[stoen]

On 5/6/2023 at 9:55 AM, christof said:

 

9 x Pelikan 400

 

What are the #1 & #2 from the left hand side?

A green/green and a green/black?

 

Is there an “official” name for the #3 as compared to #8, usually named “light tortoise”?

 

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Pelikan 140 Family (with a 350 Pencil)

Second from the right hand side? A white gold replated 140, like the one previously discussed in the “Dating Pelikan Fountain Pen” thread?

 

Thanks.

[carola]

4 hours ago, stoen said:

Is there an “official” name for the #3 as compared to #8, usually named “light tortoise”?

 

Thanks.

 

I know those (#3) as "light tortoise brown".

[MsRedpen]

@christof your posts are always a treat! Beautiful.