Anyone have a view about vintage Lamy pens? I'm interested in the 68/69 family - do I even have that right?

What do people know about these?

OK, I've won the Lamy 69 off Ebay and I'm still curious about it as I've been unable to find a lot of info. I think it's part of a pre-Lamy 2000 series, which suggests the pen perhaps forty or more years old. It's a piston fill with a blue barrel and a steel-colored cap.

Any info is appreciated. Oh, and I paid $32.95 for it, which seems a bargain. Is it?

The Lamy 69 arrived today. Nice pen, very light, similar nib to a Lamy 2000 (it's a medium). The barrel is blue and the cap is silver with "Lamy 69" engraved along the bottom. It has an "L" on the top of the cap. The pen is piston fill, and I loaded it with Levenger's Cobalt Blue. The piston works well for a pen that's at least 40 years old, but the reservoir is quite small - less than an international cartridge I think.

The pen took a bit to write well - although it had clearly not been inked in some time it had been sometime in the past. After about twenty lines of text, the ink began to flow more freely. Not a bad buy for 33 bucks.

I'd still be interested if anyone knows anything about this or similar Lamy's from the pre-2000 era. I'd post a photo, but the one I dragged off the Ebay auction seems to upload to FPN with distortions. Not sure why that would be.