Wet Double Reservoir Pens?

[minddance]

Hi! Do double reservoir pens write considerably wetter than 'normal' pens?

 

What are some of the double reservoir pens in the market today?

 

Thank you

[PAKMAN]

Not any wetter that I've noticed. Visconti has several models with double reservoirs.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Don't know where you are from....so advice is hard to give. Do put a flag up.

 

Don't know about double reservoir, either.

 

However if you hunt in German Ebay, there are Geha piston pens that have a reserve tank. Good for one or two pages after you run out.

 

(What ever you do, Do Not Buy a Geha cartridge pen, in there are no cartridges for them....at all. Geha made a double cartridge, Geha on one side, Pelikan on the other.) I even contacted and sent a few scarce Geha cartridges to the cartridge making company in Slovakia about them making them again, but they never got back to me.

 

The standard sized 790, medium short 760 (like the Pelikan 140 or Kaweco Dia) and thin medium long 725 are all semi-flex. The prices have jumped, the 790 once in the E20-30 range and can still be found for that, if you hunt with patience. If not E60, will give you as good a pen as a vintage 400, that goes for E100-120. Both Pelikan and Geha are semi-flex.

 

The 760 is always 20-30% more expensive. The flag ship model had a gold ring at the piston knob, when the 725 took over as flagship, the 760 stopped having the gold band at the piston cap.

I have three 790's, and a gray stripped body 760, not a flag ship.Plus a 725 and a couple school pens.

The 790/760 have very good balance, matching the 140/400.

 

Somewhat rare, @ '59 true three ring clip cap, that polished up better than the picture. I take the picture as part of buying the pen. Torpedo was very in, in the '50's, the 120/140 and 400nn, Swan, some Osmia pens, 146/9 and Geha.

The later '60-70's standard 790 which is normally only in black and gold. That decade's three rings.

This is a top of the line 760, with a rolled gold cap. Mine has the normal black cap, with a gray stripped body.

I had bid and lost as third, E145 for this.

 

Sometimes the grand 725 can be had for under E50. The only problem is the cap will develop a micro crack (mine came in with out, and a week later had it), which is of no importance and micro. It is a great pen, fantastic balance, classically sleek, rolled gold trim. Back when I was a 20 pen noobie, my top three balanced pens, all different all equal, were the standard sized thicker girthed MB 234 1/2, the thin medium long Geha 725 and the light for silver standard P-75. The 400nn was 4th by a head.

Since then I've not been so OCD on which has best balance....I must have 10-15 top five balanced pens by now.

Next picture with permission of Penboard de.

 

 

The well balanced standard sized Geha school pen, just the clip top as 'ring', has a serial number, is regular flex, and a great buy from E12-19.....there are German Pirates selling them in the States, for only $89. I find it as good at least as the Pelikan 120 of the same era.

 

Geha aimed at Pelikan and matched it for some 22 years until they closed down in 1972. The 725 was an expensive pen, aimed at MB and beat it....IMO. Back in 1970 when a P-75 cost $22 (silver dollars), this pen was going for $90 (360 DM) the same as the top of the line MB.

Unfortunately only in black and gold.....but MB was mostly black and gold too.

 

If you hunt on German Ebay, the seller must take Paypal and ship to where ever you live. There are penny pinching fools that refuse to pay for pay pal nor ship outside of Germany.

You do Not Want to buy by bank wire transfer if you live outside the EU, or the wire transfer will cost you $35!

Inside the EU bank wire transfer costs about what a check does in the States. We don't have checks here.

 

I take total responsibility ...for raising the price of the 790 from E15 to E60....For a whole decade I've been preaching the 790 is the Best Buy in semi-flex....the nib is a slight tad better than Pelikan. Either a Degussa or a Bock nib.....and very, very good. Two posters I respect said that, and I tested my '50-70 Pelikan and Gehas, and found it so.

Bock also made nibs for Soennecken which was the better pen than the MB 146/9 in the '50's. Don't let modern Bock nibs, influence your thoughts on this.

Degussa made the fantastic Osmia nibs.....of course in they bought up Osmia's nib factory in 1932. Degussa of course made nibs for other companies, and even made nibs with just their stamp on it, in they were great nibs.

Like Osmia, Geha's steel nibs are as good as the gold....so don't be a foolish gold snob, should you run into a 790 with a steel nib. Buy it, it should be cheaper and is as good.

Of my three 790's one is maxi-semi-flex the other two and the 760 are semi-flex. So is the 725 (rolled gold cap is a 735), gut that is a inlaid nib so I'd not ever expect a maxi.

Outside the Osmia, Diamond=semi-flex, Supra nib = maxi, no other company marked them. I have that maxi in the 790, a couple Pelikans and a MB from that era in maxi....my WOG is 1 in 5 is maxi, outside the Osmia.

You could luck out, and it is only luck of the draw for a maxi.

I have 27 semi-flex and 16 maxi's but 5-6 of them are Osmia.

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Best Buy in regular flex is the standard sized Geha school pen, which had a serial number to prevent theft. Price has jumped from E12 to E 19.

The school pen nibs will not fit the 790/760. The screw in 790/760 nibs are interchangeable.

They all have the reserve tank.