A Little Help Please

[rutesoares]

Hello everybody

 

Someone just gave me a pen that it was on a desk and don't even knows what kind of pens these are, so can you please help me?

Does this one has a big value? Because i would feel very badly to accept someting that it did.

Thank you so much.

Rute

[mhpr262]

Appaers to be a Pelikan M 400 in a "Geschenkverpackung" (Presentation/gift case) and seems to be worth around 150€. Nice pen.

 

Looking at the inkstain on the cloth of the box and the window in the barrel it doesn't seem to be entirely new though ... might be a case of someone passing on a gift he had no use for himself or found impractical ...

Edited October 6, 2016 by mhpr262

[rutesoares]

Thankk you very much Near Mint!!!

[mike.jane]

You can see at the bottom of the box that it was produced in 'W-Germany' that being 'West Germany', so having this on there means that this box was produced before 1990 (the year in which there was officially only one Germany because East Germany as a country had ceased to exist) However, how much earlier than that I cannot tell you.

 

It's amazing how time flies by. Someone put this unwanted gift on a shelf...Boom! more than 25 years have passed, more than a quarter of a century.

 

Edit: I remember seeing these gift boxes on German ebay sometimes. There, for being 'boxed with papers' the pen can fetch 100euro or more, in your country (where these might be more rare) you might still get a better price.

Edited October 6, 2016 by mike.jane

[mhpr262]

Thankk you very much Near Mint!!!

LOL!

 

"Near Mint" is just my user title because I have just 31 posts. My actual username is mhpr262.

Pretty hilarious though, I think I'm gonna use this as a screen name the next time I join some forum!

Edited October 6, 2016 by mhpr262

[TorPelikan]

Though the box said the pen to be a green/black Souverän M400, it's a black Classic M250.

 

They are still available from some UK seller.

 

I think It'll be a great pen for your daily use.

 

regards,

[Calabria]

Though the box said the pen to be a green/black Souverän M400, it's a black Classic M250.

 

They are still available from some UK seller.

 

I think It'll be a great pen for your daily use.

 

regards,

Could you let us know which ones?

 

This is a very nice pen with a 14K nib - the F should write like a dream. I bought one of these (without box and papers) at the Washington DC Pen Show a few years back for about $100 - I thought it was a steal. Unfortunately, it has a M nib which is a bit too broad for me.

[TorPelikan]

As far as I know, "Pelikanpens" and "The Writing Desk" are selling M250.

But not a classic M250 with monotone 14K gold nib but a M200 with modern M400 two-tone nib.

 

 

By the way, I think $100 is really a steal.

Nice catch!