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What Kind Of Columbus Pen Is This?


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Now that I am set up and introduced and welcomed and all, I might as well try to ask what brought me here in the first place. This time I actually remembered that I have a tripod, so the photographs actually do the pen justice.

Well, let’s plunge in: Exhibit ‘A’ here is my workhorse pen for when I’m not at home. I’m carrying it around in my rucksack wherever I go, even though it doesn’t really like it all that well, especially when I’m travelling by bike. Nonetheless, when it’s behaving, it’s a nice pen. It has a quite long nib, by far the longest in my collection, which is nice when writing, but a royal pain in the ass when refilling, especially when the bottle starts running low.

So my question is: What pen is this? Or rather: I know it’s a Columbus pen, but which model? I found out that the manufacturer apparently still exists after a fashion, but not really in the same… uhm… lineage or so, and that this pen most likely is a modern-style Columbus brand pen. I’m basically talking out of my behind, so if someone can enlighten me I’d be grateful. :o)

A few details that do not show well on the photographs (partly because I still have to get to grips with photographing this kind of stuff and because the pen kept rolling away):

  • I assume the gold-coloured stuff on the cap is brass, not gold. As far as I remember the pen was not cheap, but expensive enough to merit gold trimmings.
  • On the brass ring on the cap there is a ‘Columbuſ’ written in italic with a German-style ‘long s’.
  • The same writing is on the nib as well.
  • The nib is very long, about an inch in length.
  • It is a piston filler with an ink window an a blind cap and a screw-on lid.

That’s all that comes to my mind right now. The pen was a birthday present, so I wasn’t present at the store where it was bought (nor do I know where that would have been, or what the price was and such). It came in a Sheaffer box though, but I was told that the store had this one (Columbuſ) pen left, but no box for it, but had to put it into some box. Actually it’s a nice roundabout way of getting to a not quite common pen; that’s partly what I like about it. :o)

Anyway: Does anyone have a hint to what model this pen might be, or a link or something where I might find out more? If needed, I can try to make some more photographs, at least as far as I am able to. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Oh well, completely forgot to add the photographs!

Here’s the cap:
http://null.aleturo.com/Dumatborlon/5EGp+sk;%E2%99%80;saguaro;jpeg-00882.jpeg

Here’s the barrel with the blind cap removed:
http://null.aleturo.com/Dumatborlon/5EGp+sk;%E2%99%80;saguaro;jpeg-00883.jpeg

And here’s the pen ‘in action’, if you will:
http://null.aleturo.com/Dumatborlon/5EGp+sk;%E2%99%80;saguaro;jpeg-00886.jpeg

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A dwarf’s unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Fortress which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. Gold has not been proven not to exist, therefore it must exist.

Philosopher Prokhor Zakharov, ‘For I Have Tasted The Plump Helmet’

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Hi,

 

That is indeed Columbus although I can't remember what model. It's not currently in production, but I've seen it before. Maybe someone who remembers what it's called can identify it. The trim is gold plated. I think it may be brass underneath as that's a fairly common arrangement.

 

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Thanks for your help! No wonder that I couldn’t find out about it for myself, there is practically no information about it whatsoever available, only about the 1922’s 670. But it’s nice to at least be able to give a name to it, if only for my own curiosity.

Cheers, Zefon

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A dwarf’s unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Fortress which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. Gold has not been proven not to exist, therefore it must exist.

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