Vintage Pen Pelikan 100NN Magnum Emege This vintage pen is a 1935 Pelikan 100N Magnum Emege piston-filler in Tortoise with Red Hard Rubber cap, inner cap, and turning knob. The traim is gold-filled. This was Pelikan’s only oversize vintage pen, explaining its high demand among Pelikan collectors. The cap imprinted “Emege,” representing Pelikan’s licensed Portugese distributor, who had the Pelikan factory engrave all the Pelikans they shipped to him so he didn’t need to repair …
Montblanc Writer’s Edition Imperial Dragon This extraordinary pen is a 1993 Montblanc Limited Edition Writer’s Edition – the “888 Imperial Dragon”. This limited edition is numbered #830/888 (lots of Lucky 8s!). This is a piston-filler in black. The Imperial Dragon is an 18K solid gold sculptured “Dragon” clip with blue sapphire eyes. Made exclusively for the Asian market and never imported into the USA, so this is extremely difficult to find. Medium nib. New-old-stock. Mint …
Vintage Pen – Everest Doctor’s Pen This extraordinary vintage pen is a 1915 Everest 1915 #2 eyedropper-fill Doctor’s Pen in black hard rubber (BHR) with a gold-filled overlay in a chased pattern with a repousse foliate cap top. Everest was located in Turin, Italy. It’s not known if Everest actually manufactured their pens or contracted with some of the major Italian pen companies for manufacturing, and were only a marketing organization for their high-quality pens. …
This vintage pen is a 1946 Parker VS “Vacumatic Successor” Mark I button filler in Dark Blue. Brushed Lustraloy (stainless steel) cap. An excellent pen, but it failed in the marketplace as the public now preferred a hooded nib like the Parker 51, to an open nib, like the VS. During the first year of production, a transparent feed was used, made from a then very modern “Lucite.” (It stained easily). The Mark I had …
These 1955 prototypes are Parker Student “Victory” cartridge/converter-fillers – one in White with brushed Lustraloy stainless steel cap, and one in Grey with the same cap. Both feature a dimpled gripping section. When the barrel is removed, it provides access to an area just below the gripping section for the student to add a paper with his or her name under a protective clear plastic sleeve. Features a spring loaded clip. These were never marketed. Alloy nib …
This special vintage pen is a 1930 Waterman #7 “Yellow Banded” lever-filler in Red Ripple with the “Yellow ” cap band and corresponding nib. The Yellow nib is described as: medium “rounded, writes smoothly in any direction, suits southpaws” and right-handed writers as well. Waterman used a color-coding system so buyers could select their style of nib by ‘color’ – identifiable by the color-coded band on the cap and the label on the nib. It …
This special vintage pen is a Sheaffer 1980 Targa #1003 cartridge/converter-fill in Black Matte, including the cap top (later versions had a gold-plated cap-top). The trim is gold-plated, and the pen features an inlaid 14K nib (medium). New-old-stock. A little wear to the finish where the cap is posted onto the barrel, otherwise near mint in box with papers and cartridges. Converter included. Item #196 in Catalog #83
The vintage pen here is the 1950 Centropen/Rippet Barclay 1304/809 in a #4 size Vac-fill, in 835 Coin Silver with alternating wave-chased and Barley panels. CP clip. This is a high-quality pen made in Czechoslovakia, with Czech. control marks on cap and barrel. Removing the blind cap reveals a hollow clear acrylic plunger which is pressed several times to fill the pen. The hollow plunger also actually fills with ink, allowing the user to monitor …
Soennecken pens, no longer in production today, was founded by Freidrich Soennecken in 1875. While they sold a vast array of office products, they are most famous for the pen (his main invention is the “round writing” style of calligraphy and the pen nib associated with it), ring binder, and the two-hole punch. He was the first German company to sell fountain pens (they are in his 1890 products catalog). As a result of the …
The Extraordinary Vintage Pen here is the 1930 Tri-Pen Mfg. Co.- item #17 pictured above. This is a #4 in the Black & Pearl finish. The company previously produced triangular shaped pencils, many sold imprinted as advertising specialties. Eventually, in the 1920’s, producing fountain pens and naming the model as the Triad Pen. These are very high-quality, but few survived because users did not realize the triangular-shaped caps didn’t turn. The cap lifts straight up …
