Vintage Platinum Experts - I Have A Few Questions For You

[Mr_PFM]

Were the pt alloy nibs in pp-xxxxx pens ever released as music nibs? Have you seen one available before?

Additionally, have you seen any honest ultra's in the past year? I've heard that they're extremely rare, but there's very little info available beyond that. I can't even find any pictures online to help with identification.

There is very little information about these late 60's- early 70's platinum platinum pens out there. I recently purchased one called the pp-24000, and there's only one post discussing it from 6 years ago.

[stan]

Platinum Platinum (that is what the model was called) models did come with Platinum Alloy MUSIC nibs.

Surprisingly not flexible. Might be due to the alloys used.

Not so surprising was any mention by Platinum of the amount of Platinum used in the nibs.

They are rare. You might find one on Yahoo Japan once a year.

 

There are a few older Platinum catalogs on the internet. They show up on Japanese pen blogs like here: https://ameblo.jp/kamisama-samasama/. You may have to did through page by page over several months or years to find them.

 

An accessible resource is Lambrou/Sunami FPOJ. Their focus is on the better and more essential models. Don't expect to find every make and model here.

[Mr_PFM]

Thank you very much for the blog resource. Your past contributions, as well as Ron's, have been a great help to me. The pt nib I've gotten my hands on is a broad. My assumption is that this nib width would be quite a bit rarer that the other widths, except for the music nibs of course. Would this assumption be correct?

Lastly, feel free to ignore this request - but would you be willing to share successful search terms for the pt nibs on yahoo.jp? I would very much like to hunt down one of these music nibs to swap into the pp24000 body I've come across.

[stan]

Generally, FINE nibs are most common. BROAD nibs are the least common of standard type nibs. Depending on the model, MUSIC nibs might be least common.

 

You can search for Platinum pens with this link. It should transpose to kanji characters when pasted in your browser.

https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/category/list/%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%81%E3%83%8A-%E4%B8%87%E5%B9%B4%E7%AD%86-%E7%AD%86%E8%A8%98%E7%94%A8%E5%85%B7-%E6%96%87%E6%88%BF%E5%85%B7-%E4%BA%8B%E5%8B%99-%E5%BA%97%E8%88%97%E7%94%A8%E5%93%81/2084221029/?fr=auc-prop&tab_ex=commerce&p=%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%81%E3%83%8A

 

Thank you very much for the blog resource. Your past contributions, as well as Ron's, have been a great help to me. The pt nib I've gotten my hands on is a broad. My assumption is that this nib width would be quite a bit rarer that the other widths, except for the music nibs of course. Would this assumption be correct?

Lastly, feel free to ignore this request - but would you be willing to share successful search terms for the pt nibs on yahoo.jp? I would very much like to hunt down one of these music nibs to swap into the pp24000 body I've come across.

 

[Lomi]

Can agree about rarity, i'm digging Platinum pens for the past year alot, mostly pocket ones but still havent seen that many music or broad nibs on them, maybe few, and those was regular 14-18k, not to mention this is first time i hear about music and broad pt alloy/WG models D: I only seen this pens in extra fine, fine, medium, and dont even remember seeing SF or SM models on any photos or auctions, must be rare as hell.