I had my old webcam out to make a picture of new Parker Frontier nib and I thought I might as well do this. I've been meaning to ask this for a while now.

I got this pen somehere around 1885-1990 as a school pen. All I know is that it's a budget cartridge Pelikan pen. But I'd love to know if it has a name and what that is.

Pic of the pen:


Pic of the nib. There's a pelikan logo on it. And if you look really hard you can see an L ingraved on the side of the nib. There's another L on the other side indicating that this is a lefty nib.


Pic of the looking glass to see if there's ink left. They're little squares and you can't really see the ink properly.


The clip:


Hope someone know.

Thanks,
Lisa

I was just writing a note with this pen and it's a lovely workhorse pen. So I'm giving it a round two. Hoping someone new or someone who has missed it first time around can help ID this pen.
Germany is waking up right now (7:30), hopefully they'll hit the new posts at breakfast and recognise it.

Hi Lisa

Just so you don't think your post is being ignored, I've been puzzling over this. It looks like an early Pelikano; but the very first models had Pelikan clips, and subsequent models had 'Pelikano' on the clip. That textured section doesn't fit in with that idea either. Perhaps it's some kind of special or prototype.

You could try sending an email to Werner Rüttinger (werner@ruettinger-web.de) and asking him. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

I have seen this model somewhere in one of my Pelikan searches. What I thought than was that this Pelikan has the exact same nib as the Rotring FP's I own...

Looks to me like early Pelikano, too. Check this page:
http://www.ruettinger-web.de/index.html

cheers,
Nenad

I have been searching over the past few days because I have seen that model somewhere else, the grip is quite distinctive, but as always when you are looking for something specific you can't find it.

It looks like a Pelikano, but usually they say that on the clip

I thought it was on the link that superfly provided but it wasn't, I will keep searching though because I find it very annoying when I see something and then can't find it.

Hopefully somebody will put us both out of our misery soon.

It isn't a Pelikano. I bought this at the same time I bought a Pelikano. They were different. Pelikano had the plastic ergonomical grip for left and righthanders. Not the rubber grip. My mom had the same one but in red. It was 1 or 2 Guilders cheaper than the Pelikano. The two models were sold along side eachother at the same time in the 80s.
I liked the Pelikano better, although the nib was exactly the same, so it was just preference. I used to have a Pelikano, it broke after 5 yrs of heavy use. I got this one, but after a few months got myself another Pelikano.

Pelikan Back-to-the-Futur?