My son just bought this pen on Ebay. After reading articles on Penhero and Stylophilesonline as well as some posts here on FPN, it looks to be legitimate but I am not 100 percent sure. Could you please give me a your opinion? Thanks.
Ben

Chances are that your son has the real thing Ben.

1. The overwheming majority (if not all) of fakes have a pretend 18K nib as it increases their chance of making few more bucks.

2. The seller "looks" legit and pen-aware (although this is not 100% guarantee - I know of one e-bay seller with tons of pen transactions that buys and resells Sonnet fakes)

3. The only other possible tell-tell signs are the boxes (check: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=18572 if you have not done it yet) and cosmetic defects at the joints (see http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...?showtopic=6940)

AntoniosZ

I have bought from this seller before and I was very happy with the service. In fact I bought that very pen from that seller. He has several in stock I think. Unfortunately its the one I dropped and needs to be repaired. As far as I can tell it is the real thing. I do have a second Sonnet to compare here as well.

I am reasonably sure that the seller is quite fountain pen savy. I'm pretty sure they do pen repair and nib tuning as well.

Thanks for the help. I was pretty sure it was real but since my son is spending well over a month's allowance, I wanted to make sure he was getting a good pen.
Ben