Advice on buying some Osmiroid supplies for my grandmother

[Jn3]

Howdy. I’m a complete newbie when it comes to calligraphy pens but my grandmother practices the fine art. She just told me how she loved using Osmiroid pens but they no longer make them. After a little research, it seems there are many options available to purchase online. I would love to get her some as a surprise for Christmas, but I’m not sure what to get her. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 

[Grayspoole]

What a thoughtful idea for a gift!

 

Vintage Osmiroid pens and nibs are excellent calligraphy tools, as your grandmother already knows.

 

There are two basic types of Osmiroid nib/pens. The older nibs screw into the pen. The newer ones use a nib/section unit called “Easy Change.” I prefer the older style, with an  Osmiroid 65 (lever filler) or 75 (piston filler).  the screw-in Osmiroid nibs also work beautifully in vintage Esterbrook pens, but that’s a whole other story.

 

Try to find out what kind of calligraphy your grandmother likes to do so you can get the best nibs for her. There is a pointed “Copperplate” nib, differently sized broad nibs for italic and gothic scripts, as well as different writing and drawing nibs

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

You can't do better than the above for an overall viewpoint!  Love vintage Osmiroids, even the piston filling one.  And they are easily found on 'the bay.'

[Bo Bo Olson]

10 hours ago, Grayspoole said:

 the screw-in Osmiroid nibs also work beautifully in vintage Esterbrook pens,

It helps to tell us in what country you are.

 

I have a six nib set of Vintage Osmiroid calligraphy nibs, BB, B, M, MF, F & EF off of English ebay near a decade ago. Could well be sets or single nibs still there.

 

The 65 is a sack pen and you would have to have it re-sacked...in the old days a sac before modern inks would last @ 30 years, so 50 is pushing it.

I recommend getting a more solid Esterbrook (a plastic tank of a pen) ....that if it needs re-sacking, it's ok, in there are some dead pretty Esterbrooks....some plain black or white ones that I'd not waste money on....same goes for the ugly solid color body, metal capped ones....the ones I had in school, having missed the pretty ones by a year. 1960 was the last year they were made...could be it was 1959. I now only have two so let the little things slide.

 

Wouldn't have mattered Every year I got a new fountain pen, and a new Jotter....Every year they were stolen.

 

I have a cheap feeling 65 and a couple of Esterbrooks, which come in DJ (standard sized), SJ...slim, and LJ...ladies.

 

There are many other Esterbrook nibs you can get for your grandmother to screw in if she wasn't to write other than calligraphy.

Be Warned....Esterbrooks are additive.