Fortunately, I still have one or two penpals wich sometimes are willing to trade the one and other pen to me. Maybe you remember one of them, he bought a bunch of high end vintage pens and spent way to much money for decades. Yes the one I got my Pelikan 111 from. As it happend, he also got a 112. Also in great and unused shape, except the barrel which has fallen into onethousendandone parts...
Well, long story short, I bought the pen from him, mainly to help restoring his finances of course..., and the Pelikan 112 is mine now. Unfotrunately, I don't have a "before restoration" shot, because my friend already had disassembled the pen and sold me the parts except the defect barrel.
Restoration was easy, I just had to canibalize one of my green Pelikan 100 (I was lucky to buy some, together with the Pelikan IBIS recently...) and put the parts together to a nice Pelikan 112. Et voilà, here comes the pictures.
There was still the original price tag on the pen. 40.50 Swiss Franks probably. In 1936, this was a lot of money for a pen. Nowadays, this sum would be the equivalent of 400 Swiss Franks. Not that much for a solid gold pen,...but far from what I had to pay.
C.
Edited by Christof Z, 27 May 2014 - 06:26 AM.
