Platinum President

[davisgt]

My new Platinum President was just delivered and it was quite fun to unbox my new pen. It looks remarkably similar,  in fact shockingly similar,  to my Sailor 1911L. I will actually need to look closely enough to see the stamped name to know the difference.  Very intriguing.  

[davisgt]

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting.  I only have low-end Platinum pens (some Preppies that were freebies with four oz. bottles of Noodler's ink a number of years ago -- this was before Noodler's brought out the Charlie eyedropper pens); and one Plaisir I got early on (back when they sold them with the coated nibs to match the barrel & cap color).   When I got the Plaisir, I found that the very wide cap band was really cheesy looking in person.  But what was WORSE was that after a while the coating on the nib started to flake off and I was really worried about the possible contamination with the ink in the bottles (I gather that Platinum has stopped making those coated nibs).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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