Pelikan ceramic pen holder

[DeScribe]

Good work, Daeng. Would this pen stands be your next collection targets? :clap1:

 

Aloy, I wont be seriously looking for it. I'll just take the photos and keep it in my pelikan photo archive.But if someone is donating to me, why not?

 

lol..if someone is going to donate one to me, these pen stands will be my next collection target. I wanted to purchase a couple of such stands previously. However, it was off my budget and I gave up the idea eventually.

 

[memm]

I bought the white Pelikan holder recently (the bigger one, where the pen is in a hole in the beak) http://pelikanpens.co.uk/acatalog/Pelikan_Desk_Stands.html

I use it to store my blue M605, but I noticed that since I started using it the pen has a lot more scratches than before.... even though I am careful when I put the pen in or out. Do you have the same problem? Is there anything you did to solve this problem (felt lining, ...)?

[Inka]

@ memm;

 

Ceramic is an extremely hard substance, hard enough that it's often used for knife sharpening.

If there are any un-glazed areas inside the hole in the Pelican beak of the pen holder it will act almost like diamonds and cut into almost anything [including steel!].

Something that hard doesn't require much pressure to cut into plastics and celluloid and while I don't own one of these pen stand I do own several ceramic knife sharpeners.

If I were you and didn't want pen scratches, I'd steer clear of that pen holder and just use it as eye-candy [a collectible], maybe a paperweight, and not use it at all as a pen holder.

[memm]

If I were you and didn't want pen scratches, I'd steer clear of that pen holder and just use it as eye-candy [a collectible], maybe a paperweight, and not use it at all as a pen holder.

 

Aargh, that sounds scary. I will stop using the pen holder for frequently used pens unless I can make it pen safe (felt, ..) which it should have been in the first place. Now I need to find a way of polishing out the scratches of the M605. At least the ones on the main body (I'm not very optimistic that the ones on the silver-coloured cap rings can be removed )

[Keye Skware]

@ memm;

 

If I were you and didn't want pen scratches, I'd steer clear of that pen holder and just use it as eye-candy [a collectible], maybe a paperweight, and not use it at all as a pen holder.

 

It's too bad that they much such an attractive pen holder, that can't really be used to hold pens (safely). I really want one for my desk but it would kill me to have it and not be able to use it.

[Rick Propas]

This holder, as Deang has shown, is from the 1930s.

 

For those concerned, the inside of the holder is glazed and I do use mine, on my display case, as shown in this desktop image, here with my 112.

 

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b77/rickp/Holder.jpg

[Ed Ronax]

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m188/kewlfly/ceramicbirds.jpg

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m188/kewlfly/3pelikans.jpg

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m188/kewlfly/picadillystockholm1.jpg

 

 

I've only ever seen the white ones, I do like the big bird bottom right.

[daenghafez]

This holder, as Deang has shown, is from the 1930s.

 

For those concerned, the inside of the holder is glazed and I do use mine, on my display case, as shown in this desktop image, here with my 112.

 

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b77/rickp/Holder.jpg

 

Thanks for the info, Rick.. I've seen one of this type in Kuala Lumpur, at one of the old pelikan dealer shop, but in pink colour. The beak was unfortunately broken but glued.

[daenghafez]

 

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m188/kewlfly/ceramicbirds.jpg

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m188/kewlfly/3pelikans.jpg

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m188/kewlfly/picadillystockholm1.jpg

 

 

I've only ever seen the white ones, I do like the big bird bottom right.

 

Ed, the big green bird is occassionally in the fleabay. I bought one there a few years ago. This ceramic is the biggest of all the pelikan birds I have seen. It was produced by Blue Mountain Pottery of Canada. From one of the past fleabay auctions, it mentioned that the Blue Mountain Pottery has discontinued this ceramic. The Blue Mountain Pottery supplied this ceramic to Pelikan and it is still displayed in the Pelikan showroom in Pelikan HQ here, in one shopping mall which sells Pelikan and in an authorised dealer pen shop in Kuala Lumpur.