Cob,
It is the fact that your pen has a wrong nib and a clip that could belong to another model that make you think it is a Franken pen ?
I wonder...
Well I assumed that the clip was original; do you think it is not? I am still looking for a clip for my 223 - and a complete cap for my 884.
The pen came with an English Parker Duofold Senior nib which was in perfect condition and which I hated - it was everything I do not like in a nib. I sold the nib for 55% more than I paid for the complete pen... I thought that the Supra nib I have in the 884 would do; ha ha! much too small, but I had the very big Jewel nib to hand for which I had no home. It fitted like a dream to the big Osmia feed and writes superbly. A Frankenpen yes, and I love it!
Rgds
Cob
Cob,
I believe your clip is original, I only wondered if it could belong to another model, but there is no reason to assume it is not from a different version of 226 for example; let's say one with two rings and one with one ring in the cap could have a different clip. What does not belong to the pen, in your case, is the nib but that does not make the pen a Franken pen. It is a beautiful pen anyway and you are right to love it.
Now Thomas observations are quite useful too, since those pens in the late period before the war used to mix parts quite often... although that does not mean the pen is not original.
What I meant with my question to you is that I believe your pen is original. I believe the clip could belong to another model and the nib is certainly not an Osmia, but the rest of the pen shape seems pretty much an Osmia to me, even if Wardok pen and mine "have a cap top which geometry seems closer to a Hermann Böhler" as Thomas tells us.
Those details do not mean both pens are not essentially Osmias. I am certainly not an expert but the amount of Osmias I have, show me so many different versions that I am sure the most part of Wardok pen, as well as yours, are essentially Osmia.
Regards, Ariel
Edited by AZuniga, 18 December 2014 - 09:37 PM.