Have Anyone Heard Of Rubin Fountain Pen?

[Alega]

I just bought this very nice looking fountain pen called Rubin Extra. I have tried to google it, but cannot find anything about it. I guess it's a quite unknown brand, but the pen doesn't look very cheap, and it has a gold nib which says "Rubin Warranted 14 Ct Osmi Iridium", and it is a button filler. (See the photos.) It would be great to know the origin of the pen. Does anyone know?

 

Let me also just say that this is my first post on this amazing forum. I have been reading topics here for quite a while. It's one of the reasons why I have become a fountain pen enthusiast! :-) In Norway, where I live, it's hard to find anyone to share the hobby with, it's not a common hobby at all.

[TrixyMalicious]

never seen one of those before but its beautiful!

[Alega]

Thank you! Yes, it's very beautiful. I wonder if it could be from the Netherlands or Belgium? It looks a bit like some pens from that area made in the 50s with the same material, decorative cap bands and a pretty clip screw. Some where button fillers, I think. I also think there are some Waterman and Sheaffer pens from the 30s and 40s with the same material.

[Greenie]

Looks like a good quality pen, whether or not the brand is known. Plastic very similar to the Sheaffers. The clip mount looks like Parker Striped Duofolds and Challengers, Zephyrs. Then again, flipping through Lambrou FPOW, a lot of pens look a bit like this one. Nothing about this was in Lambrou FPOW or in Fischler .

 

Detailing on the band is also a very nice touch.

 

Please post a picture of the feed and a picture of the button filling area with the blind cap off. That might give us more information.

[Alega]

I also tried to find it in Fountain Pens of the World, and it looks quite similar to some of the pens on page 339, especially the cap band (the Pan pen), material and clip screw (the Crown pen). The name of the pen is Rubin "Extra", by the way (see photos).

 

 

[Greenie]

Thank you for the follow up pics. It is funny how many brands are out there. Some of the little know brands, like this, are clearly high quality pens.

 

Great eye to notice the Pan cap band in FPOW. I agree that the band looks just like those two Pan pens in the picture. But this pen seems to be finished to a higher end with the celluloid blind cap and the striped section.

 

I actually just noticed the striped section. Great extra quality feature not seen on many pens.

 

Looks like no one will have any help for you by way of ID. However, a nice pen is a nice pen, regardless of brand.

 

How does it write?

[Wolverine1]

Maybe it is an Italian made pen, our friend Giovanni might be able to ID your pen, if it is Italian made.

[Alega]

Unfortunately the pen needs a new sac, but I made a text sample by dipping it. The pen writes really well, it's smooth and with a lot of flex. The ink is Pelikan Topaz. (Not the best for the cheap paper I used.)

[El Gordo]

Nice pen indeed, no idea of the manufacturer. Out of scope, but does anyone actually know how they make this marvelous structures?

[wimg]

I think it is German, but I can't be100% sure. Rubin (pronounced more or less like "roo-been") in German is a ruby, and Osmi points towards one of the German manufacturers as far as I am aware.

I had a very similar pen a few years ago, in green striated celluloid, but that was a piston filler, an Osmia. It reminds me very much of that, and Osmia was owned by Parker for a while. I gave that pen away to someone who could use it, it was a little too small for my hands.

I think it could be a high class second tier pen manufactured by Osmia, who knows.

 

Maybe someone else knows more about this.

 

Warm regards, Wim