Vintage
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Danish Big Bens
Big Ben was one of the brand names from the Benzon Trading Company, founded in 1922 in Denmark by Niels Benzon. This was the same company that imported the Wahl-Eversharp...
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Sheaffer Craftsman 350 – #33 nib
Sheaffer started production of the Craftsman model in the 1930’s, with various models being produced until the early 1950’s. This was back in the day when the price of the...
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Skribent 7
Skribent was a sub-brand of the Chr. Olsen factory, better known for the Penol and Parker pens in Denmark. The origins of the name “Skribent” are debated, although it 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 206
This Montblanc 206 was made in Denmark between 1950 and 1954. As with many Montblanc’s of the era, it is coral red celluloid This pen is a button filler and...
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Penol deLuxe O
Penol’s top-of-the-line pen in the late 1930s was the deLuxe model, made in Denmark from 1935 or 1936 until the early 1940’s. According to this book, there were three versions...
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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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Miller Royal 408
This Royal 408 was made in Denmark by the Miller Pen Company. It has a somewhat unique filling system called a stretch vacumatic which I’ve described in this posting. The...
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Hoover 883
Hoover (along with Orion, London, and Gefion) was one of the sub-brands of the Danish Miller Pen Co., started by Johannes Iversen in 1908 – although the Hoover name didn’t...
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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...