Do You Recognize This Hero?

[Penguincollector]

    I was given this Hero by my dealer as his first customer of the pen bazaar. I have been looking high and low, but cannot find it anywhere.  I haven’t tried to read the Chinese yet. 

[Number99]

On 12/14/2023 at 2:32 PM, Penguincollector said:

    I was given this Hero by my dealer as his first customer of the pen bazaar. I have been looking high and low, but cannot find it anywhere.  I haven’t tried to read the Chinese yet. 

I can't see the pen clearly…

Perhaps I am seeing that pen for the first time. But it looks like there are alphanumeric characters stamped in the same column as the Chinese words on the cap, is that right? 

If it's there, that's the model number. And Chinese words is probably the hero.

The logo on the nib is the so-called HSBC logo, which was used from the late 1970s until the 1980s or early 1990s.

 

Please replace the cap number with the following string xxx and do a Google search.

英雄 xxx 钢笔

 

 

[TFHS]

Hero 282, produced in 1982.

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, Number99 said:

I can't see the pen clearly…

Perhaps I am seeing that pen for the first time. But it looks like there are alphanumeric characters stamped in the same column as the Chinese words on the cap, is that right? 

If it's there, that's the model number. And Chinese words is probably the hero.

The logo on the nib is the so-called HSBC logo, which was used from the late 1970s until the 1980s or early 1990s.

 

Please replace the cap number with the following string xxx and do a Google search.

英雄 xxx 钢笔

 

 

    Thank you, while it looks like someone else recognized the model number, I will try that the next time I encounter a mystery model. The Chinese and numbers are hard to read on the metal (and my eyesight is terrible).

 

[Penguincollector]

35 minutes ago, TFHS said:

Hero 282, produced in 1982.

 Awesome, thank you! Off to look it up!

[Number99]

There was the same model with a different pattern.

https://fz.997788.com/new/pr/detail?type_id=1&d=683&id=36168110&de=1&pid=683

I mistakenly thought it looked that way because of the angle of the shot, but it's a short model. I think it looks cool.

*It looks like the pen was developed just around the same time that Hero and PARKER were discussing OEM.

https://baike.baidu.com/item/英雄钢笔/1318010?_swebfr=220011

 

P.S.

*I bring this up in the sense that this is a hero fountain pen developed at a time when the technology was on par with PARKER.

And since it is a short model, I personally am very jealous!

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by Number99

[Penguincollector]

Thank you for the link, @Number99. I’m going to read these over my morning coffee. I love learning about these kinds of things. I really like these short-long pocket pens and the nib reminds me of a Parker 75, which given the era, makes sense.

[Number99]

27 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

the nib reminds me of a Parker 75,

If you do some research on the Hero 50 and 2xx series, I think you will find that your point is more to the point than you might think.

 

[Penguincollector]

19 minutes ago, Number99 said:

If you do some research on the Hero 50 and 2xx series, I think you will find that your point is more to the point than you might think.

 

  I expected as much, I will do so when I have some free time. I saved the links in my reading list after reading both and some linked articles. I’ve read about the partnership from the Parker angle and it’s informative to read about it from a different perspective. 

[Mech-for-i]

That is actually a rare find

[Penguincollector]

1 hour ago, Mech-for-i said:

That is actually a rare find

  That’s interesting. I haven’t been able to find out much about it other than what links are found here and a few other places. I’ll try to find out how my friend got it, he always has interesting stories about acquisitions. 

[Dan Carmell]

On 12/15/2023 at 8:16 AM, Number99 said:

If you do some research on the Hero 50 and 2xx series, I think you will find that your point is more to the point than you might think.

 

Funny! I like those nibs on the 2xx series. I notice the Wing Sung version of these nibs avoided the shoulder crease in the nib and made the nib more rounded. 

[Number99]

On 12/18/2023 at 10:44 PM, Mech-for-i said:

That is actually a rare find

 

On 12/19/2023 at 12:44 AM, Penguincollector said:

That’s interesting. I haven’t been able to find out much about it other than what links are found here and a few other places. I’ll try to find out how my friend got it, he always has interesting stories about acquisitions. 

Besides the fact that pens and their acquisition are rare, I am interested in how they came to America.

Although we are not talking about rare pens such as this model number, there were some distribution channels for common Chinese pens in Japan, such as those sold at exhibitions of Chinese products that toured public spaces, sold in Chinatown by Chinese traders living in Japan, and received as souvenirs by people visiting China for cultural exchanges, etc.

I am interested in whether or not such distribution channels existed in the United States.

 

14 hours ago, Dan Carmell said:

I notice the Wing Sung version of these nibs avoided the shoulder crease in the nib and made the nib more rounded. 

Are you referring to this pen? Several threads on penbbs have exemplified this pen as a similar model to the Hero 200A. 

I have not seen any images of the nib/feed unit, but it would be interesting to see if they are very similar.

 

YouTube video by Alan Ho.

https://youtu.be/_ejrosEkcM4?feature=shared

 

And bilibili video.by 白银法师-Silver Mage-Creator.

 

It rather resembles the PARKER Premier than the 200A.

Edited December 20, 2023 by Number99