FrankenSouv? Help please

March 23

I know that the Pelikan with the green ink window has an italic nib (it's clearly labeled, and an eBay purchase from years ago). I wanted a tipped italic and got it.

I just took this. My lighting situation is horrible, and there's no zoom on my 'camera,' which is a phone.

March 23

That is a gold-plated steel nib of the sort that one would find on a modern M200.

Or rather, on a ‘modern’ M200 that is from the era during which Pelikan were still making & selling Italic nibs.

Also, I have just checked on Pelikan’s website for its ‘Fine Writing’ products, and found this…

https://www.pelikan-passion.com/int/writing/elegance/classic/classic-200-black.html

…which proves that I was wrong earlier; modern M200 pens do indeed have the green ink-window fitted to them!

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Edit to add:
My confusion arose because my own M205 has a ‘white’/clear ink window, while my M805 has a green ink-window. The earlier edition of the M200 - produced from 1985 to 1997 - did have a clear ink window, AND two cap-bands. Have a look at the photos of the black one on…

https://www.pelikan-collectibles.com/en/Pelikan/Models/Classic-Series/M200-Basis/index.html#heading_toc_j_1

…and see if the details of the shape of the top of its cap, the logos, the lack of trim on the piston-turning knob, etc matches your ‘Souverän’ pen. That pen might, after all our guessing, be a genuine, wholly-original, first-series M200!

Second Eta:

I just checked your photo of your ‘Souverän’ against those of the first-series M200. The cap on your pen is not from a first-series M200; it does seem to be from a modern M400. But all of the rest of your pen may well be a first-series M200 - if it has no trim band on its piston-turning knob it is one.

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As such, I now think that your italic-nibbed pen (that I thought might be an M250) is in fact a genuine, fully-original, modern M200 with a factory italic nib on it. Which now has ‘unobtanium’ value :thumbup:

I do though advise you to compare the cap logo, shape of the top of the cap, the cap band, and the trim rings of your pen to the photos of the one shown on the ‘Pelikan passion’ link included above, to see whether or not they do match each other.

Slàinte,
M.