I wanted to share some photos of the latest addition to my flock; a Leader Celluloid pen. Leader is one of the brands of Brahmam, Made in India in a small town called Vijayawada.

I was quite lucky IMHO to get this pen, since most of the times the celluloid material is reserved for costlier gold nibbbed pens and very few celluloid pens are fitted with steel nibs here.

The pen smells faintly of camphor. The photos are unable to convey the depth of the marbling in the celluloid. This is a petite and slender pen. 5 inches capped and 5 3/4 inches posted. The nib is a rigid steel unit; very smooth feeling though I have not dipped the pen in ink yet (didn't want to risk staining). The filling system as usual is Eyedropper. I have been told that the clip and cap bands are gold filled.








Hope you liked my new pen. Comments are welcome.

Regards,
Hari

Congrats Hari on your new addition! Beautiful color!

Hari.............once again you show your skills at magic in digging up these beauties.

Hari...Hi...that is a beautiful pen...I think you should do a separate post on Brahmam Pens...though very little of history is available...photographs of pens may be available, the pens themselves may not be affordable...ha ha ha...

Regards,

Jai

hari,

Thank you very much for sharing this. Do you have any idea as to when this was manufactured?

Phil

My goodness, it looks like they re-incarnated a Parker True Blue and re-colored it green!

Nice work, Hari. Love these Indian pieces!

Sometime in the last 5 years...



and made it slimmer and shorter and ED filled!

Thanks for the interest shown by all of you in pens from this part of the world.

Regards,
Hari

Bravo Hari, bravo! Your perseverance is unparalleled! May I break the cardinal un-spoken rule and ask what was the cost?
Very good photographs!!
Thanks for sharing!
Abhik.

Hi everyone, I was lucky enough to find more of these Leader celluloids hidden away in a shop. The branding I found are Leader, Brahmam and Solar.



Now that I have backups, I can ink up some of them and use them without any worries.

Cheers,
Hari