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It certainly looks like a Pelikan :blink:

 

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I think he's simply stating that the design was inspired by Pelikan. At least that's how i read it.

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The clip seems to be fluted. I have seen other goldring pens that are similar to pelikans. It does have goldring marked on the top of the clip as well.

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I think he's simply stating that the design was inspired by Pelikan. At least that's how i read it.

 

Certainly--as I said, I'm not implying wrong doing by the seller because he explicitly stated it was a Goldring. My concern was that many Pelikan enthusiasts including myself assumed that we'd be hard pressed to run into fakes, but this is pretty close to the real thing. If it wasn't labeled correctly, I'd have assumed it was a 400 Tortoise.

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The design's inspired by a 400 Tortoise but the Goldring looks very different.

 

Anyway, might make an eclectic addition to someone's Tortoise collection.

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Hi,

 

A nice looking pen inspired by Pelikan (as are a few other pens from this era), the seller is reputable so I don't think there is any intention to confuse or deceive, could just be the translation (in any event his English is far superior to my German).

 

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The pen that started my passion is a Diplomat that is an exact copy of the first Pelikano: the shape, the colors, the nib.

Only the clip has a different shape.

 

 

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I believe in 60s Pelikan was the European reference for pens and thus was openly "admired" by competitors.

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A lot of pens copied the 400NN looks, I am looking at three that are not Pelikans right now, and if I look in one of the boxes I can find more. Especially the clips

 

It's a good looking pen....but I'm broke. After all a tortoise is a tortoise.

 

Anything successful gets copied. The Duafold, the Sheaffer New Balance, the P-51, certain Pelikans, Soenneckens and MB 146-149 does look very New Balance.

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