Long/short Model Mysteries

[Ernst Bitterman]

I've got my hands on some long/shorts (or is it short/longs) whose model names/numbers elude me, as well as dates of production. Please weigh in if you can help--

 

First, what I think is a couple of Platinum PBK-2000, but I'm not positive. Apart from a want of catalogues to lean on, there's two different clips. Also, on the stubby little barrel, one has "18K" and "PLATINUM" separated by a little arrowhead, which is expected, but on the other the arrowhead is replaced by an eight-point starburst.

 

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Platinum-0330.jpg

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Platinum-0331.jpg

http://ravensmarch.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/platinum-0331cs.jpg

I have another with a 14K point that looks much like the one with the more decorated clip, but that difference of gold content suggests a different model number, right?

 

Second, a Sailor with a 21K point. There is a very faint impression on the section near the joint reading 102, which may well be the model number, but I've enough experience with misleading body markings to seek confirmation.

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Sailor-0328.jpg

 

Finally, a real troublemaker of a Pilot. The point has no content indicator, just "SUPER QUALITY", so it's probably just plated. The body is made of VERY THIN metal, likely aluminum, and the only markings off the point is the difficult to read screened thing on the cap. The western script reads "Di**bdy" (the obscure letters might be "ar" which doesn't help much). The Japanese is a bit of a jumble to me--

MI (katakana) or 3, the vowel extending dash or 1, DO (hiragana), something I really can't make out (but shows up well in the picture), I (katakana).

http://dirck.delint.ca/beta/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Pilot-0329.jpg

 

When they were made is almost as important to me as what the dickens they are, so as much detail as you can throw at me will be clung to with glee.

Edited March 2, 2014 by Ernst Bitterman

[TorPelikan]

I can read something from the last photo of Pilot.

 

It's not "Di**bdy" but "Pink Lady", a name of female duo unit from the 70's whose names are "mie" and "kei".

The characters written below are "mie" in katakana - "to(and)" in hiragana - "kei" in katakana.

 

The pen is for some promotion, I suppose.

 

Sorry I don't know much about other pens but previously I owned one of those pocketable fountain pens.

Their marketing targets were students in those days.

 

 

 

Tor

[Ernst Bitterman]

Oh, that brightens my day immensely; I've recently been reading about an acquaintance's self-inflicted trial of watching DVDs of the execrable and frequently racist "Pink Lady and Jeff" variety TV show from 1980. Nothing against Pink Lady themselves; just a terrible, terrible show that got hung around their necks.

 

Assuming that it's not from their reunion tour, the promotional nature gives a pretty narrow window of production on that pen which helps me out in the actual point of this thread, so I thank you twice.

Edited March 13, 2014 by Ernst Bitterman