I´ve just bought one ! I was checking the RickConner site, and it says this pen has "celluloid cap and barrel". Is it so? I don´t think the cap looks any different from the plastic one in my M200, except from the gold-plated derby.
I´ve read somewhere that the celluloid cap should smell of camphor, but I don´t know what camphor smells like...
Does anyone know ?

regards,
Rique

Celluloid Nitrate has the camphor smell not the Celluloid Acetate. Most Pen companies use Celluloid Acetate because it is not volitale as Celluloid Nitrate. There are only a very select few companies that use Celluloid Nitrate. I know that the Platinum Pen Company uses Celluloid nitrate in very limited quantities on some pens like the Celluloid collection. As for your question, I do not have and answer for you.

TNS

Camphor is kind of a eucalyptis/menthol smell. Reminds me of when I have a cold!!!

TNS

Hi Rique,

Some older (vintage) Pelikans had a cap made of black celluloid, but I think the modern ones have caps made of resin. I am not an expert on Pels, so someone else will have to tell you which models those were .

HTH, warm regards, Wim

TNS, do you mean to say the cap should smell like Vick´s Vaporub?? No, thanks, I´ve had enough of that in my childhood...
Wim, I also don´t think it is celluloid; at least it looks, feels and smells just like the plastic cap in the M200. Not that it matters; I was just intrigued about what Rick Conner said and wanted to check it out.

regards,
Rique