One Of My Favourite Pens - Ripet 1005-1

February 8, 2018

Bought this pen on an early foray on eBay and love it to pieces...

The barrel imprint says 'Ripet 1005-1 Special'... has a ripedium 40 nib.

It writes a very fine line... about equivalent to a Japanese extra fine nib.

I haven't dared to take it to work as a daily writer, but have used it in my journal regularly.

Anyway, I've found information about the Ripet company, but any additional information about the pen itself would be very interesting. I've looked around a bit but haven't been able to find much at all.

February 26, 2018

Is the nib 14 or 18 carat? If 18, then you can bet it's a French device, as that name looks and sounds to be...sorry: that's the only idea I have for you. If so, it would help in knowing where to start searching...

March 1, 2018

The nib is 14k...

The company itself is Czech... with some history in this thread:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/240480-some-patents-from-czechoslovakia-1918-39/?hl=ripet

But that's about all I can find.

Since this pen is specifically marked as Ripet, rather than 'Centropen' it would lead me to believe that it was made as some point between 1933-ish when the company started making their own nibs (since the nib is branded as Ripet as well) and 1950-ish when the article says that they stopped making the last 'small piston fill' pens... which this one is.

I'm not sure where in this chronology it would fall though... I'd like to think that it's from the pre-war period, but I think it's probably more likely that the pen dates from somewhere around 1946 to 1948...

But that's really a guess on my part!