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Plato 66 Burgundy Lever-Fill From India 1961

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Hi, Folks!

This is a burgundy Plato 66 lever-fill pen from India dated 1961 on the barrel imprint. Plato was a brand of the Mhatre Pen Plastic Industries Private Limited which was incorporated in 1951. The external design is very similar to the UK Parker Duofold Maxima, introduced in 1958. It is an easy to service lever fill pen where the section unscrews from the barrel, giving quick access to the ink sac. The metal parts are gold plated, with a quite bright yellow gold. The stainless steel nib is lightly gold plated and stamped SUPER QLTY PLATO TIPPED. It's 5 1/8 inches long and the barrel imprint reads PLATO "66" over REGD. over MADE IN INDIA over 1961. Mhatre stamped almost every part of the pen with the PLATO brand, including the clip, section, lever, barrel and nib.
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The information on these pens is very limited. I appreciate members of FPN who have posted about them. Any chance of more information on the 66, including when they were made and how many different colors there are?
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Jim Mamoulides
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Here are a couple of mine. The larger one has a similarly imprinted nib and section to yours. The small one is not actually labeled as a 66, but I thought I would include it. It's imprint, though faded appears to be simply the Plato logo and REGD. Both are eyedroppers.

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Thanks! You have a beautiful example and wonderful photography!!

 

I seem to recall seeing 66's on eBay from the 1950's to 1970's, by the way. I have seen levers and eyedroppers. Celluloid and plastic. I also have a vacumatic-filling Plato 88; a relative, I suppose.

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Delta Indios (FP or BP)

Delta Inuit (FP or BP)

Delta Don Quijote (BP or FP, green pref.)

other Delta Indigenous People

(M nibs or wider preferred)

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Thanks! You have a beautiful example and wonderful photography!!

 

I seem to recall seeing 66's on eBay from the 1950's to 1970's, by the way. I have seen levers and eyedroppers. Celluloid and plastic. I also have a vacumatic-filling Plato 88; a relative, I suppose.

 

I have a PLATO 66 in Cocoa colour. It appears to have no filling system/reservoir?

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Those are all very handsome pens.

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I just finished restoring (about 15 minutes ago) this Plato 66 from 1960. I picked it up yesterday at the Long Island Pen Show.

For $15 I just couldn't resist the celluloid!

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It writes better than I expected it to. The nib isn't about to win any awards, but it writes a respectable, wet, medium line. Not too bad for $15!

Sorry about the cel phone photos... They're the best I could muster.

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