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Hi,

 

Today I received this M400 in all black and shiny green inkwindow.

It has a very smooth medium nib, which writes buttery soft.

 

It is made in the eighties or early nineties.

I have read somewhere that this all black model is a bit rare. Is this true?

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I bought a similar vintage striated green & black M400, with engraved cap top logo, in 1986. It has "W.- GERMANY" on the cap band. I don't imagine that the all-black version is "rare," but I could be wrong about that. Teri at Peyton Street Pens recently had one listed for a very reasonable price (under $150, I believe), and it was in excellent condition.

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The 400 had W.Germany on it from the start '82/3 to about '90, then Germany to 97....you have a very good springy regular flex nib.

In '98 and after with the 400's with the ring by the piston cap, Pelikan outside the good springy regular flex 200's started making fat blobby semi-nail nibs.

Your is much better. :thumbup:

 

:sick: :sick: :sick: envy cubed....yours is a tad better than my '90's one.

 

Won't call it rare or scarce, but is not common, in they had at various times a black 250.

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you have a very good springy regular flex nib.

 

 

Yes. I, also, had a green striated one when I first started taking up fountain pens in the '80s. It was a little too springy for me as I was starting out and I sold. You have a great pen. Enjoy.

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Hi,

 

Today I received this M400 in all black and shiny green inkwindow.

It has a very smooth medium nib, which writes buttery soft.

 

It is made in the eighties or early nineties.

I have read somewhere that this all black model is a bit rare. Is this true?

 

An all black old-style M400 was never cataloged. Only green-striated and tortoises M400's were produced. My guess is that this is a pen made from parts, mainly those from a black M200/250.

 

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Old Style black M400 are regular pens. Also M400 blue straited were produced. Nice pen!

You are right; a blue striated version was introduced in 1995, but an old style black M400 was never cataloged. (There was an old style black M600, though, which was basically an M400 with upgraded trim.)

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Hello,

 

Thank you all for your replies! It is a lovely pen, with this one I have from this M400 series a green striped with friction fit nib unit, two tortoise ones and this all black one.

 

I have read somewhere (but where???) that this all black one was made for the Asian market...

It is not a Frankenpen, the ink window is green, not grey like the M250 and the cap logo is golden colored, not green like the green striped ones have.

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