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Hi all on this lovely warm Easter weekend!

 

I have got a Geha 7*5 (replace the * with a 2,3 or 4) that I need a new cap for. I believe (after the limited research that Ive been able to do) that there are both push type and screw type caps for these. Can someone confirm if this is the case? My pen has a screw thread on the barrel, so Im obviously looking for a screw cap, but just wanted to ensure I make the correct enquiries if there are two types.

 

If anyone has any other information regarding these pens, Id love to know about it.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

Many thanks for your help with this.

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There's been a few threads, I remember some by Bo Bo Olson in particular; you might want to do a search on ebay.de (Germany), e.g. for "geha 725 füller"or "kolbenfüller", once you find them you can go back to ebay.co.uk and they should show up. I'd love to have a goldschwinge but they usually come up when I don't have the budget, or shipping only to Germany... And in these times it might take even longer.

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

 

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Hi, thanks for the reply! I did see that Bo Bo Olsen had quite a lot of input on some previous enquiries, so Im hoping he may be able to come back with some more info. I understand that the one I have could be quite rare in that its grey and has a black cap... I know that cap could have been changed at some other time, but Ive been told that this could be a prototype, so Im trying to find out as much information as I can about it. Thanks again for your input.

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Can you show pictures? Grey would be an unusual colour indeed.

 

The 1964 Geha catalog explicitely mentions that the Goldschwinge 745 and 735 (rolled gold or Silvexa cap respectively) have a push-type cap while the 725 (plastic cap) has a screw-type cap. Accordingly, the pictures show the 745 and 735 with a narrow clutch ring between barrel and section while the 725 has a threaded barrel.

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Thanks for the link to the site!

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Forgot my Igmur password....so have to copy old posts.

The semi-flex thin medium large Geha 725 is a great balanced pen....once as 'noobie' I tested my then 20 pens for balance. It finished second. A standard sized slightly thicker girth than standard MB 234 1/2 finished first. Third was my silver P-75....4th my 400nn.

I've too many pens to find out how many of my 70 pens are in my top 5...I do have 15 in my top five.

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Some one thought this.

 

""For example, consider the Montblanc 220, which was a direct response to the Lamy 2000."""

 

Nope the Geha 725....was the pen, if MB was chasing with the 220. The 2000 came out in '66,I saw it new in a store, and couldn't understand why any one would buy a rough pen....one of the MB's did come out roughened like the 2000...I don't know MB much...could that have been the 222? In I think the 220 is smooth.

 

It was my impression that the Geha 725 (@'65-72) at a new price of DM360 or $90 back when a P-75 cost $22, stomped the hell out of MB's big boys.

Then the 146 was a fat medium-large pen....not the Large pen of now. The 149 was then and IMO still is the Signature pen for the Bosses....how could one write all day with such a clunker?

 

The Geha 725 is a perfectly balanced posted pen, with rolled gold trim, and the slightly curved lines in the clip add such class. A very sleek classy black and gold pen, with a inlaid semi-flex nib.hZrR3oq.jpg3IrbiNa.jpg

Picture of the nib with Permission of Penboard.de

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MB went bankrupt about the same time Pelikan did. Pelikan was saved by a Malaysian billionaire, MB by selling status briefcases and watches and so on, to guy with little red patches on their suits.

Geha stopped making pens in @ 1972, selling their Office Supply company to Pelikan's Office Supply company @ 1990.

I did have more MB ball points back in the '70-80's over here in German....as a dumb American, the snowflake didn't mean anything. Back then MB was perhaps still making a pen for every price segment....like the Noblise; some sort of skinny Targa copy. And the Monta Rosa, neither of which did I know back in the day....in I'd become a Ball Point Barbarian.

 

In the 'mid 60-70's MB was clunky old fashioned foreign junk to us arrogant Army brats. Not a sleek King of Pens, a Shaffer Snorkel or the Prince, the P51 or P-75. In our High School in Germany one Col's son had a big clunky 149. Some ninth grade girl had one of them ugly Pelikan 400nns.

Back then Mercedes were small and under powered..........BMW was even smaller and only had 90HP............They didn't get big and gas gussying (to us over here....strangely economical in the cheap gas States(still is)) until the dollar fell hard, and they became more expensive than a Lincoln or a Caddy...so were higher status'ed.....same way with the then very expensive MB and Pelikan pens that ousted the more reasonable priced American pens..

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Ok, so a huge apology for leaving this reply for so long.  I really appreciate the time and knowledge freely given above. Thank you.

 

I’ve added some images of the (possible prototype) Geha 725 in grey (and black...) as requested by Joss.  This really is a classy looking pen and as soon as I have another cap for it, I’ll be using it daily.
 

Thanks also for the link, Whych, which has allowed me to confirm to myself that this is more than likely a prototype as there is no mention of a grey.  Finally to Bo Bo Olson for the information and opinions given with regards to who’s chasing who, and nice to see the dates linked together there and feel that could well be correct.

 

So here’re the photo’s

 

let me know your thoughts, or if there’s anything more to tell.

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