Vintage Chinese Fountain Pen Kin Sin 801

[Alexandar]

I have this vintage Chinese fountain pen for about ten years. From that I have gathered from internet and this Forum it's a pen from sixties, it have gold nib, and it was made mainly for export to the east block countries. Can some of the more knowledgeable members of this Forum give me more information about this pen? Is the "Starfleet sign" above the nib also made of gold? Is the manufacturing company related to Wing Sung? Can Chinese speaking members of this Forum give me translation of the name of the company? Thanks in advance.

[mke]

How about photos?

[Alexandar]

Will post pictures of my pen latter this day. For now, there are pictures on this Russian site:

http://lampoviedushi.hammarlund.ru/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1528&start=150

It's cherry red pen with hooded nib.

[Stefan-Ionut-Marius]

 

Kin Sin also known as ( Golden Star, Venus , and so one ) i have some fountain pens from them (565 , 703 ,707, Type 26 , Type 28 ) .The only relation they have with Wing Sung it is that of been bought in the 90's by the same company ( Hero Group ) , in conclusion Wing Sung and Golden Star belong to Hero .

 

[Mech-for-i]

Well for a start you have yourself a somewhat collectables here , Kin Sin ( an export branding spelling ) is actually Jinxing or Gold Star or Golden Star , the 801 was an up market model with company model as 701 ( not to be confused with the latter vintage late 80's model 701 which is a different pen ). The brand start pre war in Shanghai making mainly celluloid ( custom usually ) button filler, After the war the operation run for a while before the brand relocate to Beijing ( Peking ) thus the naming Beijing JinXing as it was usually referred, but there was a period where both location operate simultaneously ad the 801 was one of the model produced in that period ( between late 50's to early / mid 60's ). Since the economic situation an the particular historical condition dictate, pens of that period see a very big quality difference between themselves , the export models obviously are of the highest usually. Since there were so few of those Shanghai production late JinXing around any of them become somewhat collectable ( but not exactly costs )

 

The 801 was another adaptation of the simplified Parker 51 Aerometric mechanism first seen in the Hero 572/573 ( and 581/582/583 ) which means its basically same as the Hero 616. But JinXing had always stick with a nib that's sized the same as Parker 51 / Hero 100 thus its not compatible with all the 616 and most hooded nib ever after except their own and Hero's 329/33X series. Since the photo do not really show but one of the important differentiating part is inside the barrel, namely the sac protector ; its customary for the brand to do this in heavy chromed brass on their better pens and this is stamped their branding also ( some model had instruction stamped on the press bar but this is rare ); on this one though it might or might not be ( I cannot tell just by the photo ). The nib should be the usual 12K or Steel ( on the 701 ). Also the hood inlaid makes the model, the 701 had no hood inlaid.

Edited January 5, 2019 by Mech-for-i

[Alexandar]

Thank you for the detailed informations. So, this is rather nice pen, but it was neglected for a very long time, it is in my possession for over ten years, and I haven't used it, and before that it have been sitting filled with dried ink for a very long time, so it barely writes. I don't dare to dissasemble it, so a good cleaning is in order. First I will fill it with dishwasher soap solution and leave it for some time.

I will post pictures as soon as I find out how to do it. Usual method with linking to Imgur doesn't seem to be working for me. Again, thanks for the answers.

[Mech-for-i]

probably old ink all dried and settled inside the feed and sac and all sealed shut, likely will need several bath in warm water to get them soaked and diffused out of there first before you can clean it

[Alexandar]

Certainly it will spend time in a glass with warm dishwasher soap solution.

[Alexandar]

Latest update: the pen is writing well again. I just left the pen filled with some old Pelikan 4001 ink that dried out in about two months. When I flushed the pen so that could fill it with dishwasher fluid, I discovered that the ink itself acted as surfactant (aka dishwasher fluid) and now the pen writes normally. I don't know, the pen may still need dishwasher fluid treatment. Well, the time will tell...