I would love to know more about this pen! It's a German pistol filler with 14K fine semi-flex nip (and amazing one at that). It's quite light and feels great. There's lot of feedback from paper, which I consider good quality, even thou my other pens are quite smooth gliding. (But as I love dip pens, I'm familiar with hairline nips and LOADS of feedback.)

I would love to know more, there's picture of Mammoth (which I think is logo of Osmia) on the nip and text: Shlicht on barrel and cap. I would also like to know about prices these usualy go.

Hmm... could be one of the countless german fountain pens from the 50-60-70's!?!

"SCHLICHT" means "PLAIN/SIMPLE" in german, but it's also used as a family name!

Is there some kind of animal on the nib!?! Something like this!?!



EDIT: oh, you guessed it allready, ok!

I have a unknown German piston filler that may be related to yours. It has a small buffalo insignia on the nib, just like the nib in sky2shine's post, but mine is marked "Nichroma Iridium Point." From what I have been able to learn, the nib was probably made in the Osmia factory during the late '50s. Mine has a gold cap with a black Vacumatic-style jewel on top. It was a great writer. the piston mechanism needs to be repaired. I don't think the pen is worth very much. It was probably done as a private label pen using Osmia nibs.

Well this pen seems to be at least worth WAY more then I paid from it Which is usually a nice thing. And I don't plan to sell it, at least yet. I was actually surprised that it even worked! The place had four other pens which I have never heard of (all seemed german) two pistol fillers, one lever filler and one eyedropper. I think I'll go back there tomorrow to bargain on those If I get them on similar prices I wouldn't mind if one or three didn't work. And they all looked way older then any pen I've witnessed my self before. And I've seen loads of pens from 50s and 60s.

Oh btw the body of my pen is definatly ebonite, which was a suprise for me (since it looked like bakelite). I discovered it after I cleaned the pen and found the actual body under all that black ink

Hi
Ebonite? How interesting.
If you rub your thumb on it as if to heat that spot, it should smell like burning tires.

how may I ask did you determine its composition?

Steve

In exactly that way, previously the pen was covered nip to end with quite thick layer of ink so everytime I handled it I got ink on my hands. Now it's clean and after washing in warm water it smelled like a new ebonite pen. Now after it's dry I get the same smell rubbing it.

Huh... Makes me wonder! Today in the mail I got an Artus 44, which is an early pen made by Lamy. Artus was a Lamy subbrand back in the day. It's got a SB (soft broad/stub) steel nib that is *incredible*- flexes to a 3.5 mm wide line! It has "Artus" written on the nib, but below that, it also has a Buffalo. I can't say I expected to run into such a coincidence and see this in the same day!

And BTW Erisian- Bakelite pens are uncommon. Perhaps you're thinking of one of the more modern plastics? That'd be the case for most pens, German or otherwise, made in the 50s and 60s. Or maybe celluloid. Bakelite is way too brittle to be good for fountain pens, though there are some exceptions. Hard rubber is way more durable.

Aaron

The one I have flexes with lines from Japanese F to full 1.5mm in extreames. Most of the time it's around old European F or very close to Japanese F. I bought the other pens from the same store and will be writing about them tonight. After they have been cleaned well. One of them is Artus with very very fine nip.