First Pelikan Souveran M400 Brown Tortoise

[jatinsindhu]

Hi all,

 

I recently purchased a brand new M400 Brown Tortoise from Fontoplumo. The colours of the barrel are very difficult to describe so I thought I would share some photos. It looks stunning.

 

Hopefully I will do a full review

 

A word of praise for Frank from Fontoplumo. He is a very nice guy and it was a wonderful experience buying from him.

 

 

Here it goes..

 

 

 

The Pen has a bicolour 14K medium nib. Very smooth.

 

 

The grip section, the piston knob and the cap are all dark brown in colour. It looks like black till you see it in bright light or next to a black.

 

 

Different colours form the barrel and they look different in different lighting conditions.

 

 

A close look at the barrel.

 

 

A different part of the barrel.

 

 

The same part as the previous photo but in different lighting conditions.

 

 

The cap says Souveran Germany

 

 

The piston knob has two gold rings. The pen is very well made and the barrel meets very nicely with the piston knob

 

 

Regards

Jatin

 

[amk]

What great pictures! I hope you're enjoying your m400 as much as I am mine. I love the way the lines aren't regular, but vary in their width, intensity of colour, and sheen.

[inkstainedruth]

Congratulations! My first bird was an older model Brown Tortoise I got on eBay. It's got a very juicy and expressive F nib on it, and it started me down the slippery slope of acquiring Pelikans (mostly M400s and M200s). My husband was kinda flipping out over the price until I pointed out that A -- it was for a special occasion; B -- it still cost *way* less than a new M400 would be [and after I just bought an M405 Striated Blue and an M405 Anthracite Stresemann he understood what I meant ]; and C -- they didn't make that color any more (although that was three years ago and Pelikan apparently decided to make a liar out of me and re-issue the BT...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

Edited July 5, 2017 by inkstainedruth

[celtic101]

Congratulations. Nice pen and nice pictures. Now you "need" a green, blue, red, black, anthracite ......

[Bo Bo Olson]

My first tortoise was a '90-96 Germany one, with a springy 'true' regular flex nib a 1/2 a width narrower than yours.

Then it took me years to get a nice selection of Pelikans. I'd not call them a collection, in, in a collection one aims at getting certain pens.....with no real rhyme or reason, mine just land on the wharf and follow me home.

 

In tortoise I also have a '54 somewhat lighter tortoise with a semi-flex B. That is 1/2 a width narrower than a modern.

 

And a rolled 14 K gold cap and piston cap overlay 500, on the same shade of lighter tortoise. It being a bling pen has a OBB 30 degree grind, with maxi-semi-flex..........It is a pure signature signature pen, in my legibly written legal three name, takes 2/3rds to 3/4ths a page.

 

I've been chasing Pelikans for some 8 or more years..(must have 8 inked ).....have fun with your first tortoise.

 

Is that you first Pelikan?

 

If so I do recommend a nice 'true' regular flex 200, the nib is thinner and springier. Having a semi-vintage and a hand full of vintage 400's, I was so impressed with the 200's nib I went out and bought a 215...and two more 200's.

 

Later you can chase a semi-flex tortoise 400NN or a '50-54 400 in tortoise.....................sigh cubed.....then there are the full tortoise pens of the '30's. A grail pen.

You can not have just one tortoise....it is against the law.

Edited July 5, 2017 by Bo Bo Olson

[sargetalon]

Congrats on the tortoise! Enjoy it.

[rudyhou]

just stunning