Osmia

[Cognaticrotty]

Picked up an osmia the other day o eBay and it just got here.....

Has 662 ML imprinted on the bottom of the barrel, piston filled. Beautiful pen. Flex nib.going to ink it up soon and test it out

 

The real question....what color should I try out first with it?

Edited April 6, 2013 by Cognaticrotty

[Cognaticrotty]

Put in some noodlers golden brown. Such a smooth nib. Very light touch to add flex....just, wow. I'll post pics later

[tandaina]

I have the same pen with an OBB nib. One of my favorites. My piston seals gave though and I'm having a HECK of a time finding anything that fits it.

[Bo Bo Olson]

662 Faber Castell model of an Osmia.(have a 62 & 63 and some others) Faber Castell the one time world leader of wood pencils had a real second class fountain pen in the '30's-51.And a bit later.....

 

In 1936 started buying in to the financially troubled Osmia company.

1928-9 Parker bought into or bought controlling stock in Osmia. They made Parker Duofolds...in Germany. Lamy was General manager.An Osmia '29, Duofold goes for €1,200.

 

They were too expensive, held too little ink compared to the normal German sac pens Like MB or Soennecken..Pelikan came out in 1929 with the large piston pen....and too many German pen companies were making Parker Duofolds clone before Parker got to Germany lots cheaper.

 

1929-30 Osmia buys back...getting US technology for free. 1932 Osmia with out a office paper supply office behind it like Soennecken, MB or Pelikan is forced to sell it's nib factory to Degussa. Degussa continues to make nibs for Osmia and the many other companies that Osmia made nibs for. Osmia made pens for many companies, or Department stores.

 

Your nib is a Degussa made Osmia nib.

Does it have a 2 or 3 in a Diamond?...it is a semi-flex.

If it says Supra...it is a 'flexi'

I have three of each.

Gold or Steel is just as good as the other,neither is better than the other.

 

1936 Faber Castell starts buying into Osmia.

1938 Boehler the real name of the two brothers who started the company, splits. One goes and starts his own company that lasted to the mid '70's. (Have 4)

Taking many of the same model and number pen bodies. With out the Osmia or in the three that I have Degussa nibs. Others have Boehler with Degussa nibs.

 

Andreas Lambrou says with out the war, the company would have folded before 1951.

 

1951 Faber Castell completes buying up or controlling interest in Osmia.

Soon, Osmia's diamond on the top of half their pens disappears.

Osmia had two basic models, one had a Osmia diamond on top, with Osmia on the clip the other didn't. German were anti-bling.

 

Soon, the Osmia clip and Osmia on the pen vanishes. By the late '50's one is lucky to find a Faber Castell pen...with even the diamond on the nib meaning it's a very fine 'Osmia' nib.

Faber Castell kills off Osmia.

 

IMO....Faber Castell was stupid and egotistical, they bought up one of the top 5 German pen companies because they needed a first class pen, then they wiped out Osmia thinking folks would know they F-C now had a top class pen. They didn't.

With the BP Plague..Faber Castell was still considered a second class pen, and eventually died.

 

The Graf von Faber Castell happened after Faber Castell sold it's pencil empire...the descendent's needed something to do...so developed a pen,that still has not reached Osmia's nib.

 

A 663 Osmia Faber Castell is a nice pen; even so. Most of mine are O-F-C's too. My 63 is a O-F-C too. 663 was just a F-C 'change' to the 63, no change made than less Osmia and more F-C.

Edited April 6, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Cognaticrotty]

Has a 2 inside of a diamond.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Good it a small # 2 nib, will be semi-flex on the whole...I do have a #3 that surprised me by being a 'flexi'.

My other #3's are semi-flex.

Supra nibs are always 'flexi'.

 

Osmia nibs are good, be it gold or steel, I can not say on is better than the other. I have them in both, in semi-flex and flexi.

A top pen, with a top nib.

 

ML is OB M....Osmia has it's own terminology for oblique pens. BBL ...broad, broad, left foot =OBB, BL = OB, ML= OM. FL= OF.

If it's a right foot nib then it will be FR, MR, BR or BBR.

 

Tandaina

Richard Binder sells rubber gasket that you can cut to fit..might have to buy the tools too....some one might be able to tell you what size O rings to buy. That would be a good alternative for a plastic gasket pen.

 

The question is is your pen a cork or rubber gasket.

 

My 883 might be gasket..don't know the ink window is too black...but now I know about vinegar so will try that.(Just put that on tomorrow's shopping list.)

The pen works well just can't see if it's filled or not.

 

I think my 773...can't tell if it's cork or plastic it's full of ink. That was a almost NOS so there was no problem with it.

 

Mine 62 or 63's are cork...dead cork. Now Zombies.

 

So you can rehydrate them but it will take a week to 10 days. Not a day like I originally thought.

 

In a sink put the pen under water, run the piston up and down, so you have water on both sides of the cork. Put it paper padded in a glass/cup and every 6-8 or so hours turn it.

Every day, put it underwater in the sink and move water across the cork and into the back and front of the cork. 7-10 days later the pen will live again...zombie time.

Or remain dead.

I got one of my best Osmia's a 540 with a flexi Supra nib, that won't even stumble in the zombie walk.

 

Once rehyrdated enough to suck ink...and one of my Osimia's really is on it's zombie last legs for drawing ink, it must be kept wet...stored with water in it.

 

 

 

As soon as I finish writing my book, I'll re-cork some pens....a whole slew of Osmia's.

 

Marshal and Oldfield say, a properly cooked in oil and wax cork is smoothest for a piston...including adding silicon after you have cooked-soaked your cork.

Edited April 7, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Cognaticrotty]

So, this is quickly becoming my favorite pen. such a beautiful instrument, smooth...flexy....mmmmmmm

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[mhguda]

I got a 222 from one of the PiF thread members. It had problems, and I tried to fix them, although I ended up asking an FPN friend to do that - there were more problems than were initially apparent. It is a button filler, black like yours, with the same #2 Osmia nib. As you say, it is a wonderful writer, and I try to limit myself (because I have other pens, too!) and not use it exclusively, but sometimes it will call to me. It has been inked from the time I got it back. It too has the Osmia clip. And to think Shaughn wanted to put it in his parts bin!

I am so glad I have it.

[Cognaticrotty]

they really are beautiful pens, running a CLOSE second is the Geha i just got in yesterday

[JLS1]

they really are beautiful pens, running a CLOSE second is the Geha i just got in yesterday

 

What Geha did you get? (I'm a big fan of Sonnecken and Gehas - although I can usually only afford the latter)

[Cognaticrotty]

The Schulfuller

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Schulfuller

According to the big book Pen Culture..with only 4 pages of Geha...there are 17 Geha Nibs...some were steel, some gold. I have a very nice semi-flex steel OB, on another pen. It was a loose nib.

I have a 14 K 725 in semi-flex F, three 790's (one with three real rings, the other two with the """modern""" three ring band on the cap. one in KM, the other I'd paid a bit of money extra for a OEF, expecting a semi-flex.

It was not an OEF as marked on the pen but a 'flexi' EF. I kept the pen and didn't complain. With a bit of thought I think an OEF would be hard to see.

 

I had a few Schulfuller nibs I sent a guy

'50's regular flex with a bit more flex/spring than today's. Like the P-120....keeping slightly springier nib that was almost semi-flex for the

Schulfuller he sent me with out a nib...and my nib did not fit...could be it was from a 5xx Geha...It did not fit my two 790 Gehas.

 

The Geha steel nib I am sending him is springy a good nib almost or at the edge of semi-flex, much of a grade lesser than the one he sent me.

 

The steel Geha nib he sent me is a slightly more flexible 'flexi' nib than my 400NN.

WoW!!!!.

After polishing the Schulefuller, I decided with that nib, my MB Meisertstuck Diamond blue was well worth the nib.

 

 

I was forced to take a look at the two Geha's I had inked, plus the 'new schulefuller' vs my Pelikan 400NN 'flexi'.

 

The problem with Geha is some of the nibs are not marked. I had a semi-flex 'M' marked pen that I'd inked the other day....nib is marked EF that expands out to a M. My KM is not marked on the nib; but on the pen, my OEF did not have an O-EF, but I think it's an EF... well narrower than F.

 

Having just checked it vs the nib the fella gave me, the one in EF I have from before is more flexible than the EF. The older one is more flexible than the 400NN. The younger one seems a tad more flexible than the 400NN too. :blink:

 

In that I had had the 4 'FK' regular flex nibs with a little bit of '50's regular flex Schulfuller nibs (similar to my 120), the one that was well more springy... Thinking those guys in the states who said they had semi-flex Geha Schulfuller, slightly wrong, in I had 25 semi-flex and the nibs I had that were 'Schulfuller', were not; just thought the Nail Users from the states thought a nice springy nib semi-flex. I'd forgotten the semi-flex loose nib I have that could belong to any of the Gehas. This 'flexi' nibbed unit that only fits a Schulfuller really opened my mind.....I was wrong...if I got a 'flexi' then it is quite possible that Geha Schulfuller came in semi-flex too.

Limited knowledge...no one I ever read said, Pelikan School kid 120 with semi-flex...and thought Pelikan would match Geha.

:bonk: I have a Geha Schulfuller with a flexi nib...it matches my 790s in all ways of sturdiness and feel. You can swap caps. The Schulfuller is a very good pen, better than I thought it.

 

There is two versions of the Schulfuller...I after all had a different set of Schulfuller nibs. I expect the other to look a bit different, but to be as sturdy and solid as the 790.

 

Being a snob prevented me from getting the Schulfuller when I was 'noobie' I had the 790. Perhaps you will not get more than the FK normal '50's tad of spring like the 120. Perhaps you will get that almost semi-flex...or even a 'flexi' like I really lucked out with.

 

Either of those Schulfuller will not fit the 790, nor I think the 760. I don't have a 5XX...some day.

 

Geha strikes again. :clap1:

 

Each of the Geha Schulfullers had a serial number so the pen could not be stolen in school. So if it has a serial number it is a Schulfuller.It had one or 'no rings'.

The 790 the 'top of the line' like the bit more upper class 760 with the gold ring by the piston cap...The 760 is smaller than the M400 sized 790. The 760 is closer to the Pelikan 140. They had three rings.

5XX had two rings.

 

This is a @'59-60 790 with three true rings...it did polish up more than this Ebay picture. If I buy the pen, I get the picture...Bo Bo's Rules.

 

If you want PM me for my German Ebay Cheat Sheet...so you can navigate around and find some nice pens cheap.

It is a rip off to charge some one in the States $80 for a Schulfuller, when you can get it in Germany often under €15...some times for 12. Plus mailing of course... call it €16-18 with mailing. Mailing from Germany to the States is cheap, from the States it is expensive to Germany...don't know why.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Schulfuller

According to the big book Pen Culture..with only 4 pages of Geha...there are 17 Geha Nibs...some were steel, some gold. I have a very nice semi-flex steel OB, on another pen. It was a loose nib.

I have a 14 K 725 in semi-flex F, three 790's (one with three real rings, the other two with modern three ring band on the cap. one in KM, the other I'd paid a bit of money extra for a OEF, expecting a semi-flex.

It was not an OEF as marked on the pen but a 'flexi' EF. I kept the pen and didn't complain. With a bit of thought I think an OEF would be hard to see.

 

I had a few Schulfuller nibs I sent a guy

'50's regular flex with a bit more flex/spring than today's. Like the P-120....keeping slightly springier nib that was almost semi-flex for the

Schulfuller he sent me with out a nib...and my nib did not fit...could be it was from a 5xx Geha...It did not fit my two 790 Gehas.

 

The Geha steel nib I am sending him is springy a good nib almost or at the edge of semi-flex, much of a grade lesser than the one he sent me.

 

The steel Geha nib he sent me is a slightly more flexible 'flexi' nib than my 400NN.

WoW!!!!.

After polishing the Schulefuller, I decided with that nib, my MB Meisertstuck Diamond blue was well worth the nib.

 

 

I was forced to take a look at the two Geha's I had inked, plus the 'new schulefuller' vs my Pelikan 400NN 'flexi'.

 

The problem with Geha is some of the nibs are not marked. I had a semi-flex 'M' marked pen that I'd inked the other day....nib is marked EF that expands out to a M. My KM is not marked on the nib; but on the pen, my OEF did not have an O-EF, but I think it's an EF... well narrower than F.

 

Having just checked it vs the nib the fella gave me, the one in EF I have from before is more flexible than the EF. The older one is more flexible than the 400NN. The younger one seems a tad more flexible than the 400NN too. :blink:

 

In that I had had the 4 'FK' regular flex nibs with a little bit of '50's regular flex Schulfuller nibs (similar to my 120), the one that was well more springy... Thinking those guys in the states who said they had semi-flex Geha Schulfuller, slightly wrong, in I had 25 semi-flex and the nibs I had that were 'Schulfuller', were not; just thought the Nail Users from the states thought a nice springy nib semi-flex. I'd forgotten the semi-flex loose nib I have that could belong to any of the Gehas. This 'flexi' nibbed unit that only fits a Schulfuller really opened my mind.....I was wrong...if I got a 'flexi' then it is quite possible that Geha Schulfuller came in semi-flex too.

Limited knowledge...no one I ever read said, Pelikan School kid 120 with semi-flex...and thought Pelikan would match Geha.

:bonk: I have a Geha Schulfuller with a flexi nib...it matches my 790s in all ways of sturdiness and feel. You can swap caps. The Schulfuller is a very good pen, better than I thought it.

 

There is two versions of the Schulfuller...I after all had a different set of Schulfuller nibs. I expect the other to look a bit different, but to be as sturdy and solid as the 790.

 

Being a snob prevented me from getting the Schulfuller when I was 'noobie' I had the 790. Perhaps you will not get more than the FK normal '50's tad of spring like the 120. Perhaps you will get that almost semi-flex...or even a 'flexi' like I really lucked out with.

 

Either of those Schulfuller will not fit the 790, nor I think the 760. I don't have a 5XX...some day.

 

Geha strikes again. :clap1:

 

Each of the Geha Schulfullers had a serial number so the pen could not be stolen in school. So if it has a serial number it is a Schulfuller.It had one or 'no rings'.

The 790 the 'top of the line' like the bit more upper class 760 with the gold ring by the piston cap...The 760 is smaller than the M400 sized 790. The 760 is closer to the Pelikan 140. They had three rings.

5XX had two rings.

 

This is a @'59-60 790 with three true rings...it did polish up more than this Ebay picture. If I buy the pen, I get the picture...Bo Bo's Rules.

 

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I do have some six Osmia and 4 Boehler pens too.

 

Do chase your Schulfuller on German Ebay...I just missed out on a couple for my bid of €12 last month... I did not get back to chasing them, the next week as I expected and now I don't.

If you want PM me for my German Ebay Cheat Sheet...so you can navigate around and find some nice pens cheap.

It is a rip off to charge some one in the States $80 for a Schulfuller, when you can get it in Germany often under €15...some times for 12. Plus mailing of course... call it €16-18 with mailing. Mailing from Germany to the States is cheap, from the States it is expensive to Germany...don't know why.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

The Schulfuller

According to the big book Pen Culture..with only 4 pages of Geha...there are 17 Geha Nibs...some were steel, some gold. I have a very nice semi-flex steel OB, on another pen. It was a loose nib.

I have a 14 K 725 in semi-flex F, three 790's (one with three real rings, the other two with modern three ring band on the cap. one in KM, the other I'd paid a bit of money extra for a OEF, expecting a semi-flex.

It was not an OEF as marked on the pen but a 'flexi' EF. I kept the pen and didn't complain. With a bit of thought I think an OEF would be hard to see.

 

I had a few Schulfuller nibs I sent a guy

'50's regular flex with a bit more flex/spring than today's. Like the P-120....keeping slightly springier nib that was almost semi-flex for the

Schulfuller he sent me with out a nib...and my nib did not fit...could be it was from a 5xx Geha...It did not fit my two 790 Gehas.

 

The Geha steel nib I am sending him is springy a good nib almost or at the edge of semi-flex, much of a grade lesser than the one he sent me.

 

The steel Geha nib he sent me is a slightly more flexible 'flexi' nib than my 400NN.

WoW!!!!.

After polishing the Schulefuller, I decided with that nib, my MB Meisertstuck Diamond blue was well worth the nib.

 

 

I was forced to take a look at the two Geha's I had inked, plus the 'new schulefuller' vs my Pelikan 400NN 'flexi'.

 

The problem with Geha is some of the nibs are not marked. I had a semi-flex 'M' marked pen that I'd inked the other day....nib is marked EF that expands out to a M. My KM is not marked on the nib; but on the pen, my OEF did not have an O-EF, but I think it's an EF... well narrower than F.

 

Having just checked it vs the nib the fella gave me, the one in EF I have from before is more flexible than the EF. The older one is more flexible than the 400NN. The younger one seems a tad more flexible than the 400NN too. :blink:

 

In that I had had the 4 'FK' regular flex nibs with a little bit of '50's regular flex Schulfuller nibs (similar to my 120), the one that was well more springy... Thinking those guys in the states who said they had semi-flex Geha Schulfuller, slightly wrong, in I had 25 semi-flex and the nibs I had that were 'Schulfuller', were not; just thought the Nail Users from the states thought a nice springy nib semi-flex. I'd forgotten the semi-flex loose nib I have that could belong to any of the Gehas. This 'flexi' nibbed unit that only fits a Schulfuller really opened my mind.....I was wrong...if I got a 'flexi' then it is quite possible that Geha Schulfuller came in semi-flex too.

Limited knowledge...no one I ever read said, Pelikan School kid 120 with semi-flex...and thought Pelikan would match Geha.

:bonk: I have a Geha Schulfuller with a flexi nib...it matches my 790s in all ways of sturdiness and feel. You can swap caps. The Schulfuller is a very good pen, better than I thought it.

 

There is two versions of the Schulfuller...I after all had a different set of Schulfuller nibs. I expect the other to look a bit different, but to be as sturdy and solid as the 790.

 

Being a snob prevented me from getting the Schulfuller when I was 'noobie' I had the 790.

Perhaps you will not get more than the FK normal '50's tad of spring like the 120. Perhaps you will get that almost semi-flex...or even a 'flexi' like I really lucked out with.

 

Either of those Schulfuller will not fit the 790, nor I think the 760. I don't have a 5XX...some day.

 

Geha strikes again. :clap1:

 

Each of the Geha Schulfullers had a serial number so the pen could not be stolen in school. So if it has a serial number it is a Schulfuller.It had one or 'no rings'.

The 790 the 'top of the line' like the bit more upper class 760 with the gold ring by the piston cap...The 760 is smaller than the M400 sized 790. The 760 is closer to the Pelikan 140. They had three rings.

5XX had two rings.

 

This is a @'59-60 790 with three true rings...it did polish up more than this Ebay picture. I used this picture in it shows the Geha reserve tank. Ther 'blue' continuation after the threads that runs into the section..If I buy the pen, I get the picture (at least to show off here)...Bo Bo's Rules.

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This is the normal '60-65 Geha 790 with three other style rings.

 

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I do have some six Osmia and 4 Boehler pens too.

 

Do chase your Schulfuller on German Ebay...I just missed out on a couple for my bid of €12 last month... I did not get back to chasing them, the next week as I expected and now I don't need to.

 

If you want PM me for my German Ebay Cheat Sheet...so you can navigate around and find some nice pens cheap, do so.

.

It is a rip off to charge some one in the States ask $80 'Buy Now' for a Schulfuller, when you can get it in Germany often under €15...some times for 12. not counting mailing of course... call it €16-18 with mailing. Mailing from Germany to the States is cheap, from the States it is expensive to Germany...don't know why.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[Kaweco]

 

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Andreas Lambrou says with out the war, the company would have folded before 1951.

 

...................

Hello

I am curious about what Lambrou had been talking about here. He did not give any reference within about 10 years and makes such a strange statement. Had it been another of these quick ideas that could be found in the book?

Kind Regards

[Bo Bo Olson]

I don't know for sure, but think the constant problem with money the company had could have had something with it...

@1928-9 they sold them selves to Parker...Parker sold it back to the Boehler brothers, who had gotten a 'free' technology transfer.

Parker's pens were too expensive and held too little ink, along with many of the 120 pen 'manufacturers' (Many only 'made' pens from other's parts.)

In 1932 Osmia was forced to sell it's nib factory to Degussa. Degussa continues to make Osmia nibs; and nibs for many others, being then thge Bock of the day. 1936 Faber-Castell starts buying in.

 

Middle of 1938 one of the Boehler brothers splits the company...because of F-C interference???.

His Boehler pens at least at the start are the Same pens that they were making before. His Mdl 54 was the same as the Osmia 54, and 76=76.

 

O-F-C 54, black, gray and pearl. Osmia Supra M nib stainless steel. I have three steel and three gold and the nibs are equally good as far as I can tell.

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Mdl 54 Boehler Gold....tortoise

 

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The 3 I have do not have Degussa nibs, other Boehler pens of this time that other's have do.

Boehler mdl 53 with the fancy clip.

Mdl 76 BCHR which I have in both Osmia and Boehler, but the fancy ink window belongs to the Boehler.

Mdl 53

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Mdl 76

 

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Cap is with the wrong pen...It has plain cap trim; but a real fancy ink window. :embarrassed_smile:

 

Osmia had two clips one with out the name, and two cap tops, one with the Osmia Diamond and one with out...on the same barrel so, one could go with 'bling' or not.

I don't have enough Osmia pens to know if the fancy Boehler clip was often available or not before the split.

 

So Osmia had competition from itself.

F-C completed the buy up of Osmia...don't know if it was a full buy up or they had finished buying up controlling interest. With in a couple of years Osmia slowly got erased; a fool move IMO.

 

Boehler continued to make Pelikano style pens into the '70's.

However Boehler was not making large production runs or more of those pre-war pens would show up... I just remembered I have a semi-flex C/C semi-hooded Boehler.....Pelikan type. The semi-flex nib shocked me. I just don't expect spade or semi-hooded nibs to be so.

 

That puts a different perspective on the firm surviving after the war....but before the war was what Lambrou was talking about. That had Osmia not had war production security or making other items, with the competition also from the brother. Osmia would not have lasted more than a few more years.

Osmia always had money trouble in it did not have an Office Supply Company backing it, like Soennecken, MB, and Pelikan.

If the company did not 'fail', it could well be that F-C would have done the buy out earlier...in the early '40's.

 

It could have been one brother was a bit more conservative than the other with pen bling...though some where on my another disk...so not in order to find, is a mid '30's Osmia Deluxe that could have stood elbow to elbow with any German company's Baroque and Rococo bling design. It is on my buy as soon as six numbers show up in the same block.

Edited April 14, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[konis]

Thank You.

A large dose of information about my favorite company.

best regards

konis

[KenF5]

Picked up an osmia the other day o eBay and it just got here.....

Has 662 ML imprinted on the bottom of the barrel, piston filled. Beautiful pen. Flex nib.going to ink it up soon and test it out

 

The real question....what color should I try out first with it?

 

 

Re: Osmia:

I purchased one of these in Toronto many years ago under the name "Faber Castell Flexible Nib Sketch Pen". It really was nice to use. Unfortunately I was young then and tried using India Ink...Not working anymore.

KenF5

[whych]

Re: Osmia:

I purchased one of these in Toronto many years ago under the name "Faber Castell Flexible Nib Sketch Pen". It really was nice to use. Unfortunately I was young then and tried using India Ink...Not working anymore.

KenF5

Putting the whole pen into warm soapy water and leaving it for a day or so usually softens the India ink and you should then be able to sart getting the piston moving and the nib unscrewed.

[konis]

I was lucky that I managed to buy Faber Castell - Osmia 884 Green Striped.
This is one of my favorite pens of the brand.
It was required only cleaning and replacement new seal of cork in piston.
Osmia in the fifties was a strong competitor to the Montblanc and Pelikan.
Faber Castell at that time he had a majority stake in the company with Osmia, but the logo Osmia on the nibs and captops are present. It was a good idea.
Brand Osmia was known and recognized for many years, and the Faber-Castell had just beginning to independently production of fountain pens.
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