Germany
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Montblanc Meisterstück 14
The 14 was first released in 1959. It’s a piston filler with a hooded 18 k gold nib and an ink window, as can be seen in the photo below....
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Geha set
The Geha Company was started in Hannover, Germany in 1918 by two brothers, Heinrich and Conrad Hartmann. (The company name is a shortened form of Gebrüder Hartmann, or Hartmann Brothers). The company,...
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Rotring 600, steel nib
This is a 2nd Generation Rotring 600. It’s difficult to ascertain the age of this pen, so I’m not going to guess. It has a steel, medium nib and is...
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Pelikan 100
The 100 was Pelikan’s first fountain pen, and was the first to use a differential piston system, patented by the Hungarian engineer, Theodor Kovacs (see this page for more details)....
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Montblanc 146 barrel with a 246 cap and nib
I purchased this pen without knowing enough about it. After some digging around (and with some help from the friendly people at fountainpennetwork.com) it turns out that this is at...
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Matador Click 123
This Matador Click 123 has an extra-fine nib with an easily-controlled flex and an unstained ink window. It is a piston-filler, made in Germany, date unknown. The writing was done...
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Osmia / Faber-Castell 883 & 189
This set is dated 3.9.57 as was therefore probably made in the 1950’s. The 883 fountain pen has a Fine nib with a nice flex and a clean ink window, and is...
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Lamy 25P / 225 Bp set
The “P” in the model number of this Lamy fountain pen stands for “patronen” or “cartridge, since it takes a standard cartridge instead of the proprietary Lamy T10 cartridge. The...
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Making of a Pelikan Souverän
A promotional video (with German narration, and an excellent soundtrack!), but it still has some good info on how pens are made. This shows a hybrid of mass production techniques...