A Winged Platinum

[mke]

On Tuesday, someone was a bit stingy and bid only 4.5 USD for this set of pens - and probably forgot to check the situation before the end of the auction. It was then easy to get the winning bid with 4.6 USD.

They are certainly from a collection. These pens are like new - eventually they were never used.

 

I'd like to know a bit about the pen with the wing. Am I right in the assumption that this is a pen from the end of 70s/begin of 80s? I think at that time such experiments would have been thought cool.

Platinum Wings

A search on google (including checking many pictures) did not retrieve any hit.

[Algester]

Platinum Wing... last I remembered when they go the patent rights for the Wingfold/Wing Flow nib design they made a pen I exactly forgot if the Wing was part of that

the merits for the 70/80s time frame would mean it would have at least been an 14-18kt nib

Edited May 26, 2017 by Algester

[mke]

> the merits for the 70/80s time frame would mean it would have at least been an 14-18kt nib

OK, that is right. It has none. Also the font of "WINGS" is too modern. 1990s?

[antichresis]

Great find, mke!

[mke]

I rechecked yesterday evening all the pictures I could find on Google, at no avail.

Last chance to find out: Platinum customer service.

It might even be a unique pen, order-made for a company as a test, an expert on Japanese pens suspected.

[Algester]

if you check cronicas estilograficas you can check on how to date the nib... hopefully we can get something out of it

Edited May 28, 2017 by Algester

[mke]

I have got some information from Platinum.

The pen is from the early 1990s, designed by a Japanese designer, sold for ca. 2 years.

This is all they know, they told me.

Edited May 31, 2017 by mke

[Algester]

then estimate I could give for the price for it's age may have costed about 3000-5000 yen SRP for it's time... not sure if accounting inflation how much it would cost now

its a good documenting specimen since barely anyone knows about it

probably 1993-1995 some where there

Edited June 1, 2017 by Algester

[mke]

> 3000-5000 yen

I think you are right.

I only hope that someone with more information will someday stumble onto this thread and provide us with the missing information.