I read that the change in the Pelikan logo from two babies to one happened in 2003. Was the change made on all their pens? Is it reliable enough to judge a pen pre- or post-2003 because of the logo?

Thanks,

Bill

no - not reliable if you want complete accuracy. It seems apparent to me they still had old stock they were using. Some of the White Tortoise pens (2004?) have two chicks, others have one. Unless you ask Pelikan Germany when they ran out of old stock and started using the new logos on their caps, I think it's not of much use. And then you have to break it down to which pens ran out of the old stock first. Maybe they had more 200 old-stock cap ends than 600 or more 600 than 800 and so on. The best thing you could do is possibly narrow it down to within a couple of years (2003 & 2004 perhaps).

Thanks, KCat. That may explain a couple of my recent Pels with the older logo. Either that or they sat on dealer shelves for 3 years.

Bill

yeah - another strong possibility. I can only point to my first "reason" because the White tortoise came out either the same year or the year after the logo change.

I just checked most of the "new" Pels I bought in the last year or so and I found only two with the old logo (both came from the same vendor) -- M400 (white tortoise) and M800.

So, I have no idea what it all means other than I had too many extra minutes available.

Thanks for the info.

Bill

They are slowly changing all of their pens to this new logo eventually it will be all one logo the new one, but it will take a little time...

Tim