Green Pen Club - Show Us Your Green Pens!

[Penguincollector]

It took 30 years, but my Pelikan finally reproduced:

[amk]

Fine, I'll play!

From the top, Pelikan m200 pastel green, Tudoriya with green mottled ebonite section, JG Teal Breaker (is it blue? or green?), Pelikan 400, Waterman Lady Elsa, Platinum 3776 jade celluloid, Platinum 3776 Laurel Green, Pelikan m205 Olivine.

The Laurel really looks black till you hold it up to the light.

[Misfit]

Thanks for playing @amk  next up is likely the Red Pen Club. That will take care of RGB.  Then we can branch out to all the other colors. I’m anticipating yellow. I have I think five pens in that color. Blue was the first Pen Club color by @Penguincollector who encouraged me to start the Green Pen Club. We hope to keep this going.  

[Bo Bo Olson]

No, yellow or red....maybe on the last.

I am though a Charter Member of the Black and Gold club. A good 7 years ago, I said no more black and gold.....so as Murphy wills it, half the rest of the pens I did buy.....were black and gold.

[inkstainedruth]

For someone who is DECIDEDLY NOT a member of the "Black Pen Society" I seem to have an awful lot of them..... 

I'm going to have to go through the stash and get photos of the blue ones (including one I just got last weekend) and the green ones.  Not a lot of red ones, I don't think, but I have a couple.  Not sure if I have any yellow ones, but if gold counts, I have a couple of Morrisons that have rolled gold overlays..., and the Mabie Todd Swan ringtop that I bought thinking it was a no-name lever filler that just HAPPENED to have a Parker Lucky Curve nib stuck on it.... 

The weather is supposed to be better by the weekend, so hopefully I can get some pix taken.

And to think that at one point I actually started charting the pens by color in a file (only to decide that was too OCD even for me...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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[51ISH]

7 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Thanks for playing @amk  next up is likely the Red Pen Club. That will take care of RGB.  Then we can branch out to all the other colors. I’m anticipating yellow. I have I think five pens in that color. Blue was the first Pen Club color by @Penguincollector who encouraged me to start the Green Pen Club. We hope to keep this going.  

 

A red pen thread is a great idea....   Although I think I've only got one!  🤣

[amk]

If red includes black and red.... I have some nice pens to contribute to that one.

 

It's nice to see pens of so many different brands all together in a photo. I enjoyed this thread a lot.

[senzen]

I only have two, M205 Olivine in EF and 1911S Mother Green in F, perfectly matched to Souten and Chiku Rin.

 

 

 

The first is a really elegant pen in its dark colour, the other is wild considering most of my pens are black. Still kicking myself for not getting a solid green Geha piston filler, I'd already blown my pen budget by... 1000%. For some reason the typical Pelikans in green stripes don't say anything to me.

[Bo Bo Olson]

52 minutes ago, senzen said:

solid green Geha piston filler,

Ah Ha!!!!! That I didn't even know they made.

I have a stripped green one in my post from before.

 

One must be careful and Never Buy a Geha cartridge pen...most were school pens and many look very nice. BUT, Geha was the first cartridge pen in Germany  and with it's own proprietor  fitting cartridge there being no international one. On the other end of their cartridge they later put a Pelikan fitting....which later became international standard....when exactly I don't know.

But When Geha went under that was it.

 

I did write and send a few of my rare Geha Cartridges to a Cartridge manufacture in the Czech Republic with no answer.

 

I am very happy with my piston Geha's including the piston school pens.

I consider Geha semi-flex and the regular flex school pen to be the Best Buy (in Ebay auction only) in their flex rate....€60-80 for the 790, if one Hunts hard one can still find piston school pens for €19.

 

I found the Hunt and one only but last second bidding to be an Adrenaline rush. (sniping works too.) The more well to do and or  impatient buyers cane easily spend 3-4 times that on By Now. They are waiting for you.

 

Two posters I respect, said Geha's nib was a tad springier than Pelikans. I had some 5 Geha's and 6 Pelikans from that era then....and I found them to be right.

The semi-flex 790/780(my full green stripped one)/760 are a tad more springy than Pelikan nibs. Degussa, maker of Osmia's nibs and the end of Soennecken also made the nibs for Geha.

[Penguincollector]

20 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

One must be careful and Never Buy a Geha cartridge pen..

I thought someone here had noted that a reversed Lamy cartridge or one of the short Parker cartridges would work? Has this been shown to not work since? 

[Bo Bo Olson]

3 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

a reversed Lamy cartridge or one of the short Parker cartridges would work?

Rumor as far as I know....or I'd have some pretty Geha school/ cartridge pens.  And cheap.

Buried somewhere in my 100+ pens is or was a Geha that takes cartridges...

 

.I'd not sent two cartridges and the box to Czech Republic to see if they wanted to make that Geha cartridge if the reversed Lamy cartridge worked. It didn't by me....and the short Parker is brand new, news to me.

 

I've been warning about Geha cartridge pens for years and no one is/has been jumping on my case for not using either of those cartridges.

[Penguincollector]

Bo Bo Olson

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Posted December 10, 2010

The Geha cartridges are not available any more, but a reversed (!) Lamy Safari cartridge or a short(!) Parker cartridge will fit.    
 

 

My apologizes to Jars.  
 

I’m just reading what you wrote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[Bo Bo Olson]

That full tortoise is a Boehler (once part of Osmia, the brothers split Osmia in 1938). That pen is a Boehler 54 Gold. Boehler kept the same model sizes as in the old company.

Semi-flex Italian nib. gold had been stolen by Hitler, but gold plated nibs from Italy an ally was ok.

Two more Boehler pens....I normally could and sometimes do caunt my few Boehler pens to my Osmia pens.

 

Two BCHR  Boehler pens, the big one just fell apart one day....the small one with the great clip is still good. Italian nibs........Degussa maker of Osmia's nibs, didn't supply Boehler the first year or so...but continued supply his brother-Osmia.

Nope, don't have any green Boehlers, but there some school pens that are green. I saw them but am not into collecting school pens, even if a few fall into my hands.

 

I do have a simple cheap looking 1970's blue Boehler with a P-45 style nib, that is semi-flex. One of those pens that because of the nib, it has to rated higher than the body. It was one of those flea market finds, where one b*tches with one self for even trying the nib then....

Boehler lasted well into the '70's..perhaps '80's from the split in 1938. Osmia got swallowed in 1950. The brand Osmia was still a first class pen when they were finished bought, up by Faber Castel (started in 1936-a reason why the company was split in '38)  and then Faber Castell a second tier maker, erased Osmia from the pen inside a decade; one bit at a time. Pencil makers who ought a Dukedom, ego.

Guess you can tell I'm a Osmia/Boehler fan.

 

If turquoise counts as green, I have a 1960's Wearver with a nice regular flex nib....actually it's my wife's pen that she'll never ever use, so mine. 

[senzen]

On 5/6/2023 at 12:21 PM, Bo Bo Olson said:

Ah Ha!!!!! That I didn't even know they made.

I have a stripped green one in my post from before.

 

 

 

It went for something like... $65. I still have nightmares about that, I awake screaming "come back, come baaaaaaaaack!". Fat chance.

 

I did stumble upon a cartidge Geha, it might even have been a Goldschwinge, and remembered your warning; I didn't get it (still waiting for my third 725 😬) but at the time someone was seling original Geha cartridges...

[Bo Bo Olson]

I didn't know the 725 was ever made for cartridges....but as much as I 'know' is lots less than what there is to know.

 

Isn't that 725 such a sleek, classic great balanced pen?

With permission of Penboard.de.

One of two clips... Rolled Gold trim....and at the time I bought my silver P-75 in '70 for $22 silver backed dollars, the &25 was going for DM370 or $90.

Second clip, mine that I find so classy with adding just two lightly curved lines.

 

As far as I know they came only in Black and Gold....or I'd have another. I have a vague memory that there may have been another color.,,,perhaps I read it in Ruediger's Geha blog...his Pelikan one is great also.

There is also a 735 I'm missing with a rolled gold cap....and one more I think, a 745 which I don't remember what it is.

They were made to stomp the MB2xx into a mudpuddle and did.

 

A thin medium-long gorgeous pen with real great balance and a semi-flex nib.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Posted December 10, 2010

The Geha cartridges are not available any more, but a reversed (!) Lamy Safari cartridge or a short(!) Parker cartridge will fit.    
 

 

My apologizes to Jars.  

Rather old.....

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I was referring to other info  on that ... in circulation....in the Lamy cartridge didn't work...or I'd be a happy camper. with a number of chap and pretty Geha school pens.

 

And I don't know (now living in Germany) if I've seen a short Parker cartridge since the mid '60's.

I wonder were that pen is, if I still have it...I could try a long Parker if a long Lamy was supposed to work.

[Penguincollector]

Somewhere in that thread someone mentioned converting a Geha school pen into an eye dropper. I have seen a few here in the US for cheap, I might try it as I have a ton of both Lamy and Parker cartridges and silicone grease if that is indeed possible. If I decide to I will inform you of the results- we’re getting to the bottom of this one way or another.

[Topgunbai]

[Misfit]

@Topgunbai wow is that a happy and bright green. The nib looks like a Karas Kustoms. Is the pen by Karas?

[Topgunbai]

44 minutes ago, Misfit said:

The nib looks like a Karas Kustoms. Is the pen by Karas?

 

Yes, the nib is a Bock 250 titanium nib from Karas Kustoms. However, the pen is an Edison Menlo draw filler from Edison Pen Company.