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[Parcival]

This is Pelikan 100N from Milan factory in Italy, after 1947. The barrel made of solid marble-green celluloid.

 

[Christof Z]

Great pen!
Fantastic!
Where die you find it?
C.

[Parcival]

I found it in Italy. I have also desk pen, which is similar:

[Parcival]

I found pictures of a pen, also bought from Italy. i put the pen somewhere and now I can not find her. It has no inscription and logo on the cap. The nib is not Pelikan. Is shown for comparison to German pen. Cap of German can be used in Italian. The pump is the same.

[Christof Z]

This is a fantastic pen too, hope you will find it again.
Unfortunately, I never found any Italian Pelikans here in CH.
c.

[Parcival]

These are interesting pens. I think they are more successful than the German model, because there are no problems with crystallization of the end of the barrel and a fracture of celluloid sleeve.Thus were made new special editions M101N. Similar exist in databases in penboard.de with better pictures.

http://penboard.de/s...ian&db_seller=0

[piscov]

I got one some years ago. Mine is boxed and marked Milano in the cap and in the box. The nib is CN and has an "I" at the base of the nib. Don´t know what that"I" stands for... maybe Italic?? Italy???

 

Your desk pen is very intersting!!

 

 

 

Edited by piscov, 04 January 2015 - 01:41 AM.

[Parcival]

I guess these pens labeled Milan they were earlier, but postwar. Differences with my pens are wide cap lip to the rings, inscription Milano, the nib section - old version and green ink window. I think this nib is was made in Germany - original, italic type. Later nibs are manufactured in Italy - for example CN with heart hole and some gold with Italian label.

http://www.thepengui...kan_history.jsp quote:

"Foreign production was also resumed, this time only in Milan and using old equipment for the manufacture of hard rubber pens imported presumably from Hannover. Over the next few years, Milan produced not just pre-war pens, but a number of variants. Some of the most interesting of these pens were 100N pocket and desk pens made without a Binde. The colored celluloid was integral to the barrel and not an overlaid band as had been the case with virtually every Pelikan made up to that time. The nibs and clips were also unique to the facility. Production in Milan did not last long, however, due to quality issues. Today, the immediate postwar Milan pens are highly valued by many of the more compulsive Pelikan collectors."

Edited by Parcival, 03 January 2015 - 11:18 AM.

[soot]

The Milan made 100N have one drawback, the inkview part of the barrel shrink over time. At least some of them does, not all.

[piscov]

Did not knew that, only handled this one I have and I must be a lucky guy then, my only one is perfect, no shrinkage ate all