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Pelikan M205 Toledo Red

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It looks soo utilitarian with the ink window and the new solid colors. Very esterbrook-ey

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I have to admit, I don't like this tomato red colour called Toledo red. I prefer their old burgundy/bordeaux solid colours.

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I have a black Binderized version of this pen. It's lovely. Very smooth, wet writer (just how I like them) with a very functional ink window.

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It`s Pelikan 205 red. It isn`t Toledo red. Toledo red is this

http://www.elitista.info/imagenes-productos/PELIKAN_TOLEDO_RED.jpg

Toledo isn`t the colour, it`s the decoration of the barrel, typical from Toledo, Spain

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I have a Binderized 205 in Toledo Red. I first inked it with Herbin 1670. Some pen/ink combinations are just right together. I love the pen, love the ink, and love the combo so much that I keep reinking with the 1670--it's never had another ink. The ink looks fantastic in the window, and even better on paper.

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Great review, great pen. I have several Pelikans but this review prompted me to grab another while the special price applies - USD$74 delivered to the door via Fedex from melpens.com in Malaysia. Super offer too good to ignore ... thumbup.gif

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santander02 - Pelikan themselves call it Toledo Red on the box, so perhaps we should go with that :happyberet: - and lovely as they are, Pelikan's current 'Toledo' pens have precious little to do with the Spanish craft metalwork of the same name. I wish they did!

 

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Great review, superfreeka. Has anyone noticed quite a change in character in Pelikan steel nibs of late? Both my F red M205 and EF M205 blue demonstrator nibs have had far more flex than older M215 nibs. A bit more tooth as well. The writing experience seems different - not bad in any way, it just has a different character.

 

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Well done indeed: you have purchased a pen that will not only make you happy your entire life, but is capable of doing the same for your descendants. And, it's RED!

Pelikan 120 : Lamy 2000 : Sheaffer PFM III : Parker DuoFold Jr : Hero 239 : Pilot Vanishing Point : Danitrio Cum Laude : Esterbrook LJ : Waterman's 12 and an unknown lever-filler : Lambert Drop-fill : Conway Stewart 388

 

MB Racing Green : Diamine Sapphire Blue , Registrar's : J. Herbin violet pensée , café des îles : Noodler's Baystate Blue : Waterman Purple, Florida Blue

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I have one en route purchased from a friend that is like new. Am looking forward to receiving it.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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I have the same nib in my M215. It's incredible.

Girls say they want a guy with serious ink, but then pretend to be bored when I show off all my fancy fountain pens. ~ Jason Gelles

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It`s Pelikan 205 red. It isn`t Toledo red. Toledo red is this

http://www.elitista.info/imagenes-productos/PELIKAN_TOLEDO_RED.jpg

Toledo isn`t the colour, it`s the decoration of the barrel, typical from Toledo, Spain

 

santander02 - Pelikan themselves call it Toledo Red on the box, so perhaps we should go with that :happyberet: - and lovely as they are, Pelikan's current 'Toledo' pens have precious little to do with the Spanish craft metalwork of the same name. I wish they did!

 

John

 

And here's the proof from the end of the box of my Toledo Red M205 ...

 

 

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Arrived the week of Thanksgiving here in the US (11/25)

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/Runnin_Ute/Fountain%20Pens/176-PelikanM205Crimson_zps6bfcdd11.jpg

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af283/Runnin_Ute/Fountain%20Pens/176-PelikanM205Crimson-Nib_zps0636cf0f.jpg

 

The photo shows a F, but I had it switched to a M.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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I purchased a Toledo red a couple of years ago. One of my children promptly bent the nib. A few weeks ago a bought a new nib off nibs.com (despite the strong recommendation they have against still nibs). I now look forward to using the pen every day I'm at the office (where it now lives).

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I'm amused to see that the OP was a student, given that the red M205 makes an excellent pen for marking student work. Mine's currently filled with Diamine Pumpkin (no sigh of the ink window staining yet), and with its bright colour I can't confuse it with my 'main' pen, my birthday present M400 tortoise.

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