Hello all,
Pelikan 100N fluted cap ring is my favourite 100N cap variation. Both clip and cap rings are in my view very elegant.
Very recently I was able to find and buy the variation I was missing in my collection, the earlier one with wider and deeper vertical channels and found on all ebonite caps with the several birds in the nest logo (1937/38)
As far as I know Pelikan used at least 3 variations of the fluted rings along the production years ( 1937 to 1954). One of the variation is, to my best knowledge, very scarce.
The difference between them are the spacing and depth of the "vertical channels"
Here are pictures I took from pens in my collection that show the variations:
From the lowest to the top:
1) Deeper and wider "vertical channels" - Earlier 1937/38 Fluted cap ring, found on all ebonite (Hard rubber) cap. Top cap has the early logo with the several birds in the nest ( I´ve only seen 3 of these caps being one of them mine)
2) Less deep and less wide " vertical channels. 1939 to ??? - found on all ebonite cap with the 2 birds.
3) Narrower and shallow " vertical channels" - ??? to 1954 - Celluloid cap ( this variation is the ordinary one)
Note: I am not sure about the the dates marked with "???". I would appreciate more information to complete this post. If there are more variations please let me know. These are the ones I know about at the moment.
Edited by piscov, 29 August 2014 - 08:13 PM.
