Yellow Pen Club - Show Us Your Yellow Pens!

[Misfit]

The Pen Clubs continue with a challenge, yellow pens. We will start other pen clubs, and some of those should have lots of contributions.  Let’s see how many yellow pens people buy. 
 

I have five. 
 

 

From left:

Pilot Prera yellow

Nemosine Singularity Sunglow

Sheaffer from a set

Pilot Kakuno

Lamy Safari neon yellow

[AmandaW]

Oh dear, just two: a TWSBI Eco and a Jinhao 886.

 

 

Mi

 

 

[Misfit]

Two is still two pens!  

[Penguincollector]

I added my yellow gold pens to flesh out the collection. 
From left to right: Sheaffer 777, five below 8 color set yellow,  Parker Vector, Chren .38 financial nib, Cross 10k rolled gold 14k nib.

[Misfit]

Nice set @Penguincollector are vintage pens your main focus?

[Tashi_Tsering]

I have just two yellowish pens. Hope they are yellow enough for this topic?

 

- Montblanc Carrera (aka no.522)

- Graf von Faber-Castell Pen of the Year 2008 in “Indian Saffron Wood” (have no idea what "Indian saffron" is.) 

[Misfit]

Yes they are @Tashi_Tsering  thank you for sharing.  

[austinwft]

My one and only.

 

[Penguincollector]

7 hours ago, Misfit said:

Nice set @Penguincollector are vintage pens your main focus?

  They have been lately. I’ve been picking up a lot of the pens I coveted or lost when I was a wee penguin. 

[Helen350]

[InesF]

Only one to add and only partly yellow: Aurora Caleidoscopio Luce Bianca

(the other close to yellow are ochre, amber or orange-yellow)

[Paul-in-SF]

One cheap, one dear. A Kaigelu 316 (I think) Parker Centennial semi-clone in a pale semi-translucent yellow; and an actual Parker Centennial in the material called Check Citrine. The actual Parker is showing up somewhat darker than in real life, where it is a much more lemony color, rather like Limoncello. 

 

[Misfit]

Such a variety of yellow. Thank you all for sharing. I hope there are more to come. 

[The Elevator]

Rats, I have no yellow pens. I guess that means I should go get some

[Misfit]

@The Elevator maybe one, that would be enough to join this club. 😊

[Bo Bo Olson]

Yellow...a decade and close to a half before I got a Pelikan 605 on sale at famous, cheap to get certain Pelikans. Galeia Kaufahus....and I've been looking for it again ever since..................But I was a fool noobie gold snob. and had no idea how grand the tear drop tipped 300's nib sere....was also a semi-flex snob.

There was a yellow 200 for some €30 ...I've been looking for one ever since...........I have no yellow-yellow pens.

 

But I see gold/gold colored pens  are allowed.

Not my picture, in mine is OBBB 30 degree grind, maxi-semi-flex Pelikan 500...'52-54

My picture under, so one can see how poorly they are.

 

A '91-97 Pelikan tortoise and how I hold a fountain pen, fore finger up....an automatic light grip.

The tortoise is darker in my '90's tortoise than my 500 or transition '54 400.

 

Rolled gold Waterman  pen from @ 1925, is in my to mail for re-sacking box....is semi-flex not superflex.

 

14 K gold overlay....I think it because of the clip, which i have also in silver overlay and a couple of others, was made in the jewelry center of Germany Pfortzheim.............In there were once lots of German 'Kingdoms' the grand Dukes who voted for the German/Austrian Roman Emperors. or Kings had to develop a money source so agreed, one Grand Duke or King could do jewelry....another in Ider-oberstein could mine for and fix up jewelry stones, and another could carve ivory in Erbach. For making gold and silver jewellery, Pfortzheim, .... more for silver ware/table sets, Hanou, Swabish Hall were some of the centers. This is ignoring the ancient cities famous for silver....that got bypassed, like Augsburg.  

With the fishbone pattern, I'd suspect a Herlitz made sup brand,  Luxor pen body.  Both FP&MP  are 14 K. I think this is post war...

 

 

Often when I win a pen, I take the picture as part of the deal....even average pictures are mostly better than mine. Or when I win at a live auction.  Some times I just stumble across one...if possible I get permission.

 

Someone else's picture...as one can tell back before I threw out that cruddy camera and even with my wife's handy....I take the world lousiest pictures . The picture also tells me what it is.

I'm not sure if my wife has the roller ball or not....or if it was ever there.

DM115, on the tag on the clip.

 

Rolled Gold standard sized MB742 telescopic piston, with a nib flexing directly between semi-flex and maxi-semi=flex (my only one like that....have some 35 semi-flex and 15 maxi-semi-flex)...is a heavy pen. Pre-telephone and computer live auction house...I just couldn't let a dealer have that nib......................I wasn't heavy into MB but in the last 15 years, did end up with a hand full.

 

 

A medium-small well balanced 'No Name'. As one can tell from the clip...I suspect Pfortzheim, but it could be even if not marked some sort of rolled gold, in if brass, I'd expected to have had to polish

it.

 

 

Rolled gold pre-war Fendomatic made in Milan, Safety pen...Semi-flex nib....

With permission of Penboard.de professional slightly different pattern and a  great picture.

 

The two Cd'A pens in the lower left corner...The FP is a nail, the other is a roller ball given to my wife.

 

Sort of yellowish...a full tortoise Boehler. The Boehler brothers split the Osmia firm in 1938. This is a Boehler gold mdl 54........Boehler continued with the old firm's model numbers. About  1938 .

 

I also have a 'gold colored', plastic not bad looking until felt, for cheap Multschler made 'original reform'. The pen does have a 14K Degussa made spade nib, and in semi-flex.

That was bought only for the nib, the first spade nib I'd run into that was semi-flex. All the spade nibs I'd run into before that were nails.

 

I had never really sorted out my pens until, green, red, blue and yellow/gold threads started. By the time I could have worried about matching ink and pen colors I had too many pens and not enough inks.

I knew I had a lot of pens, and a lot of Pelikans (living in Germany ..that is natural), but never did a spreadsheet or had a spleen to collect a lot of any one color....in the decade and a half, it was luck of the draw.

 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

 

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Yellow...a decade and close to a half before I got a Pelikan 605 on sale at famous, cheap to get certain Pelikans. Galeia Kaufahus....and I've been looking for it again ever since..................But I was a fool noobie gold snob. and had no idea how grand the tear drop tipped 300's nib sere....was also a semi-flex snob.

There was a yellow 200 for some €30 ...I've been looking for one ever since...........I have no yellow-yellow pens.

 

But I see gold/gold colored pens  are allowed.

Not my picture, in mine is OBBB 30 degree grind, maxi-semi-flex Pelikan 500...'52-54

My picture under, so one can see how poorly they are.

 

A '91-97 Pelikan tortoise and how I hold a fountain pen, fore finger up....an automatic light grip.

The tortoise is darker in my '90's tortoise than my 500 or transition '54 400.

 

Rolled gold Waterman  pen from @ 1925, is in my to mail for re-sacking box....is semi-flex not superflex.

 

14 K gold overlay....I think it because of the clip, which i have also in silver overlay and a couple of others, was made in the jewelry center of Germany Pfortzheim.............In there were once lots of German 'Kingdoms' the grand Dukes who voted for the German/Austrian Roman Emperors. or Kings had to develop a money source so agreed, one Grand Duke or King could do jewelry....another in Ider-oberstein could mine for and fix up jewelry stones, and another could carve ivory in Erbach. For making gold and silver jewellery, Pfortzheim, .... more for silver ware/table sets, Hanou, Swabish Hall were some of the centers. This is ignoring the ancient cities famous for silver....that got bypassed, like Augsburg.  

With the fishbone pattern, I'd suspect a Herlitz made sup brand,  Luxor pen body.  Both FP&MP  are 14 K. I think this is post war...

 

 

Often when I win a pen, I take the picture as part of the deal....even average pictures are mostly better than mine. Or when I win at a live auction.  Some times I just stumble across one...if possible I get permission.

 

Someone else's picture...as one can tell back before I threw out that cruddy camera and even with my wife's handy....I take the world lousiest pictures . The picture also tells me what it is.

I'm not sure if my wife has the roller ball or not....or if it was ever there.

DM115, on the tag on the clip.

 

Rolled Gold standard sized MB742 telescopic piston, with a nib flexing directly between semi-flex and maxi-semi=flex (my only one like that....have some 35 semi-flex and 15 maxi-semi-flex)...is a heavy pen. Pre-telephone and computer live auction house...I just couldn't let a dealer have that nib......................I wasn't heavy into MB but in the last 15 years, did end up with a hand full.

 

 

A medium-small well balanced 'No Name'. As one can tell from the clip...I suspect Pfortzheim, but it could be even if not marked some sort of rolled gold, in if brass, I'd expected to have had to polish

it.

 

 

Rolled gold pre-war Fendomatic made in Milan, Safety pen...Semi-flex nib....

With permission of Penboard.de professional slightly different pattern and a  great picture.

 

The two Cd'A pens in the lower left corner...The FP is a nail, the other is a roller ball given to my wife.

 

Sort of yellowish...a full tortoise Boehler. The Boehler brothers split the Osmia firm in 1938. This is a Boehler gold mdl 54........Boehler continued with the old firm's model numbers. About  1938 .

 

I also have a 'gold colored', plastic not bad looking until felt, for cheap Multschler made 'original reform'. The pen does have a 14K Degussa made spade nib, and in semi-flex.

That was bought only for the nib, the first spade nib I'd run into that was semi-flex. All the spade nibs I'd run into before that were nails.

 

I had never really sorted out my pens until, green, red, blue and yellow/gold threads started. By the time I could have worried about matching ink and pen colors I had too many pens and not enough inks.

I knew I had a lot of pens, and a lot of Pelikans (living in Germany ..that is natural), but never did a spreadsheet or had a spleen to collect a lot of any one color....in the decade and a half, it was luck of the draw.

 

 

 

 

  WOW 🤩
Your flock (and adjacent pens) are amazing, Herr Olson. I can see all of the pens very well in all the pictures (and I’m visually impaired), so don’t knock your picture taking skills too much. 
  The Fedomatic and the Boehler in particular caught my eye.  I’d be interested in a picture of the pen with the Degussa spade nibbed pen if you care to share one.
  

[Bo Bo Olson]

Tomorrow Ill talk my wife into using her phone...I'm a landline guy....that and pigeon mail.

Mutschler made Original Reform...and about as cheap a gold colored pen as can be had.

 

Good looking until you feel the pens....and gold colored plastic.

Unfortunately my wife's not learned how to take good picture....sure a hell of a lot better than me......There is more to taking a picture with a Handy/cellphone than it appears.

Spade nib..simi-flex

JS

14K

585

 one can click and get a better view...

I messed up the attempt in imgur to make a closer picture.

I have less luck in that sort of thing in Imgur, but the easier to adjust pictures Moneybucket ...which I didn't see paying a fortune for FPN pictures.

Click 3 X, but is still a bit blurred.

 

I cut the way too blurry closeup...

..................

Before the War...Original Reform like Tropen were mostly German Export fountain pens. Tropen got saved for a while, when the British labor Government refused to rebuild the bombed flat  British pen industry. The British Army in the north of Germany right after the War,  ordered 50,000 pens from Tropen.

 

Original Reform was a very solidly made Pen I have two of his war pens....and very solid. I should keep my  eye out for his very early ahead of or at least up to date design fountain pens. In end of the '40's  the mid '50s.

His pens were so good, his foreign wholesalers sent him cash in advance so he could buy supplies. In the middle of the '50 the ball point came in....The owner of Original Reform refused to make a second class pen to keep up with the ball point. So he closed down his factory.

Some years later he sold his factory and name to another Heidelberg second-third class pen company Mutschler...who made cheap pens.

Including the 1745....and it's nibs were made by Degussa, which took over Osmia' 1922 nib factory in 1932 for debt. The workers refused to move 40 miles to Pfortzheim, so the nib factory remained in the Osmia factory in Heidelberg, the then Pen Capitol of the World. ....and Degussa continued to make nibs for grand nibs for Osmia, and like Bock '38 or Rupp '22 for anyone else. Rupp closed @1970.

@ the year 2,000 Mutschler sold it' factory tooling and the Original Reform name to China. That's when Dugus a stopped making nibs.

So China ship's pallets of caps and other pallets of pen bodies to Germany where they are screw together to make a pen...being 'made in Germany'.

[Penguincollector]

That’s a cute set! I like those types of pens, they seem to fit my hand well. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Reform fountain pen says Germany, the  still working Parker style ball point cartridge...Reform ...says W.Germany as does the BP, so these pens are from @ 1991.

 

The cap must be metal, in there is a place to engrave one's name.

The semi-flex nib eyeballs to a F.