Hello all!
Have you ever dreamed awake and tough how good would be to go back in time, enter a stationary store and buy all those pens we now hunt or desire? I have! Observing the ambience, smelling the place, trying the pens and inks and come out with my pockets empty and my collection hugely increased.
Off course that then I hit my head and go back to work! I know that's no going to happen, but it´s nice to allow my brain to take me to nice imaginary places from time to time...
Then there are those days were you open a package that arrived to the house and what comes inside is almost like that dream!! This week I got that that feeling. Just a small taste of what realizing the dream would be like.
I open the parcel and this came out of the box! A MINT IN BOX WITH PAPERS, NEVER INKED AND WITH ORIGINAL CORK INTACT!!!!
Notice the old, but still perfect cork in this picture. The instructions are in German, English, French and Spanish, and are in perfect shape as if they were printed yesterday!!!
I have had others Soennecken 510 before and some near mint, but none like this one, in a box and un-inked!!
Soennecken released this pen in 1938, the biggest competitor was probably the Meisterstuck pens from Montblanc ( 13X series). In a 1939 Catalogue refereed by Pavoni in his excellent post at FPN here (thank you Pavoni for this fantastic thread!!!) the pen has a price of RM 9.00
The price is still readable in the box and was RM 8.50, so I wonder if this one is a first year. Mine does not have the eagle on the top of the cap.
So this will have a good place in my Soennecken drawers and is not going anywhere. Also will not see ink while in my hands. Why ink a pen that was produced 76 years ago and was kept perfect?? I will be the guardian for as long as I can or want and then will pass the task to another pen nut!!
Cheers
Vasco