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I'm thinking about focusing my fountain pen collection on German pens. Is there a master list of German manufacturers? If not, let's use this thread to form one.

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Off the top of my head:

 

Montblanc

Pelikan

Lamy

Kaweco

Goldfink

Soennecken

Add:

Geha

Osmia

 

Luxor

L&C Hardtmuth

Bohler

Tropen

and add Simplo an early manifestation of Montblanc

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GvFC

Artus (early version of Lamy)

Add Merlin too.

 

And somewhere in the Pen History forum there is a master list of manufacturers...or is it in the reviews :hmm1: But there is one floating around the ether of FPN. Try here!

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And Montblanc

 

 

 

Yes I know its been mentioned already but I like it so much I just had to mention again :ltcapd:

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Well I got 7, and bid on a couple more, and a couple I've not bid on.

 

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Some of them made the pens in Germany but were basically export firms like Tropen, and Luxor, Merlin/Clio. They made good pens, but the market was saturated.I'm not sure if Matador is German too, but it is a good pen.

 

All German companies made pens other than black for the Export market....they cost more than black...and are harder to find; for me in Germany.

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Another one is Cleo Skribent, from former East Germany. It was briefly imported by Swisher and it may still be sold by passion4pens.

 

I was at some point very tempted by their Linea Arte silver pen.

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Another one is Cleo Skribent, from former East Germany. It was briefly imported by Swisher and it may still be sold by passion4pens.

 

I was at some point very tempted by their Linea Arte silver pen.

 

This does beg an interesting question; does anyone know the state company or private affiliate of the DDR that produced FPs from 1945-1989? Was there more than one?

 

I have not looked at the Cleo site, but I will shortly.

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Markant was a DDR pen.

 

I have a pair of Cleo Skribent Chiffre piston fillers. Decent pens. Passion4pens (I think it is) now carries a very expensive Cleo.

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Greif

Brause

Garant (another East German company)

Welt Pen

Senator

Solid

 

I have a list of more but will have to post them tomorrow. Senator still makes pens, I think, but the others are vintage only.

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I have such a long way to go,

 

Herma

Leander

DDR Markant ( I think someone mentioned it.)

 

Adlatus

 

Then there are the many "no names".

There were many mom and pop pen makers; for local market, who bought unfinished pens from teh big boys and assembled or fixed them up...and have absolutely no markings, out side of A Warrented or Peter Bock nib, if that. Many just have a nib saying Iridium point/and or/ Made in W.Germany.

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Sourkraut, liverwurst, and... of course... beer!

 

Jeer :puddle:

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Aristokrat (no longer made, seems company was based in Fürth next to Nuremberg)

online pens (based in Neumarkt, also not far from Nuremberg)

 

This page lists a few more companies I've never heard of.

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