Pelikan 120 Vintage piston fountain pen

[whych]

I recently bought an M&K120 with a Bock OB 14 K nib, so there are gold nibs around for the M&K versions.

If it's the original Type 1, the nib could have been a swap from a Pelikan 140.

 

Feder=nib (in this case, not a spring)

[bbbiswas]

I recently bought an M&K120 with a Bock OB 14 K nib, so there are gold nibs around for the M&K versions.

If it's the original Type 1, the nib could have been a swap from a Pelikan 140.

 

Feder=nib (in this case, not a spring)

 

Does it then mean that tennis player Roger Federer's family used to make pen nibs?

[Bo Bo Olson]

My 120 has a gold plated nib...as of yet, it is still whole...looks pretty.

 

There is a big difference between a KF and a FK.

The KF or KM is a Kugal/ball tip, where the bottom is flat, the 'iridium' is thicker at the point of the nib and up to the top. I have a couple with more iridium on the top of the nib tines than on the bottom, a little ball of 'iridium' on the wrong side of the nib!!!! . It was for folks that held their fountain pen like a pencil....pre ball point.

 

The FK,or MK on school 120 pens or Geha are like the 'American Bump' of 'iridium' under the tip of the tines. (even if on the 120 the tipping under the nib is less than the Geha schulefuller, it is 'roundish'.)

Most of the '50's German pens were with flat tipping of 'iridium' under the tines; a more stubish nib than in the '60s and later.

(As 'noobie' I didn't know that, I thought some idiot had taken a file or a stone to the 'bump' I thought should be there....I was wrong.)

 

'Iridium' was more expensive than gold so in the '50's pens the Germans used less and did have 'flatter' nibs than English or American nibs. They also liked that 'somewhat stubbish' pattern, and also obliques with some flex.

 

In that school kids had not developed their Hand well enough to use a flatter nib, the round ball under the nib allowed them more freedom of nib movement while writing.

That is why the school pens had FK or MK nibs; the American Bump under the tines.