my french kaolo
#1
Posted 08 July 2010 - 12:58 AM
when i returned to HCMC last year, i spotted another one of these in a trayful of vintage pens, but it wasn't nearly as nice as my first one and i was being asked $60 for it, so it's probably still there, on antiques row (LKC street):
#2
Posted 08 July 2010 - 01:59 PM
During and after the war, such pens were made using aluminium leftovers from the arms industry.
These pens were still produced in the late 40's, mostly for export to Asia and Africa, where "Kaolo" even became a synonym for "pen".
#4
Posted 08 July 2010 - 03:10 PM
many thanks for that valuable information!
Yes, really. I'd never heard of the pen. Impressed that with the small initial population on this board, such good info is coming out.
-david
Email: isaacson@frontiernet.net
#5
Posted 08 August 2014 - 09:49 AM
Reviving an old thread, but there's a Kaolo pen on ebay.fr at the moment with its original papers - featuring a prominent palm tree and claiming it as 'Le stylo des pays chauds", the hot-countries' pen. It's a safety pen (à plume rentrante) and is marketed as not leaking 'even in an aeroplane'. It also boasts of being made entirely of ebonite, which together with the typography suggests a date considerably later than the heyday of the ebonite pen and indeed the safety pen. It's obviously an export product.
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