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Anyone here collect, or have any, vintage Italian pens? I love the idea of vintage pens, but must admit that my favorite pens are of Italian origin/design. I think I've only seen 1 vintage Italian pen on the market. I imagine they're more often found in Europe.

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I don't think anybody did (does?) celluloid pens better than the Italians, but I know only a little about them, and I don't have my notes with me. I would like an Aurora Amica, or a Montegrappa Elmo.

Montegrappa (Elmo), Columbus, Ancora, Omas, Aurora, and numerous others.

 

Nice post here on the Bella Italia

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/143012-some-vintage-italians/

 

You may find the following links interesting.

http://www.vintagepen.net/-european-vintage.html

http://mrgoldfink.blogspot.com/search?q=italian

http://www.gopens.com/Cat54frames.php

 

Best of Luck, you've got great taste.

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Anyone here collect, or have any, vintage Italian pens? I love the idea of vintage pens, but must admit that my favorite pens are of Italian origin/design. I think I've only seen 1 vintage Italian pen on the market. I imagine they're more often found in Europe.

I collect vintage italian pens, but I'm italian and I live in Italy, so I have some advantages...

 

But Italian brands had a very little production if compared to american brands, so they are also quite uncommon outside Italy and had very small numbers compared to brands like Waterman, Parker, Eversharp or Sheaffer.

 

Main italian historical brands were Aurora and Omas, but the older ones are Tibaldi, Elmo and Nettuno.

 

You can find some english information abous some of these brands in the following pages of my wiki:

 

http://www.fountainpen.it/Ancora/en

http://www.fountainpen.it/Fabbrica_Italiana_Penne_a_Serbatoio_Aurora/en

http://www.fountainpen.it/Columbus/en

http://www.fountainpen.it/Elmo_Montegrappa/en

 

these are between the few pages for which I did some translations (and I apologize for the my poor english). You can find a more complete list of italian producers here:

 

http://www.fountainpen.it/Categoria:Italia

 

but the corresponding pages are written in italian; hopefully google or some other web translator could help you to understand their content.

 

Regards

Simone

 

PS if someone want to help to improve translations or just make some new ones, I can give write access to the wiki to anyone wanting to improve it.

Fountain Pen Wiki - www.FountainPen.it

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Thank you both for the great links :) I can see shopping in my future. And a trip to Italy wouldn't be bad either!

Tamara

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Hi Tamara,

I do collect vintage italian pens, I love Ancora in particular, but these pens are hard to find even here.

You may want to read my topic on the Ancora Calamus, if you like italian design.

I am attracted by celluloid pens, but you can also find beautiful vintage pens with amazing italian overlay works on them.

 

Ciao

Z

 

 

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Thank you both for the great links :) I can see shopping in my future. And a trip to Italy wouldn't be bad either!

Because it is one of my favorite brand I just made a raw translation also for the Omas page, you can find it here:

 

http://www.fountainpen.it/Officine_Meccaniche_Armando_Simoni/en

 

Regards

Simone

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Hi, Tamara,

Besides the links given above, there are some italian pens here: http://www.penboard.de/shop/

 

I don't have italian pens, but for what I have seen in web sites, their celluloids are some of the best

I'm a user, baby.

 

We love what we do not possess. Plato, probably about pens.

 

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Anyone here collect, or have any, vintage Italian pens? I love the idea of vintage pens, but must admit that my favorite pens are of Italian origin/design. I think I've only seen 1 vintage Italian pen on the market. I imagine they're more often found in Europe.

 

 

Sir I have two sets of Fulgens Stilnova. Can you give me any info about these sets. Are you interested in buying them? THANKS Al Kahn

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Hi

 

I restore and collect vintage fountain pens and do love the Italian range. I have a wonderful Aprillia and just acquired an Eros Black Star.

 

Best designed fountain pens are Italian

 

Best Piston fillers... German (Have a mint Arengo)

 

Regards

 

Robert

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I don't collect vintage Italian pens but I do have one, a black-and-gold Aurora 88P. It's swoon-worthy; elegant, well-made and a beautiful writer. I'd post a photo but I'm told I've hit my limit.

James

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I do not collect Italian pens in particular but here there are some I have...

 

Radius Superior, PBF

Everest, PBF

Omas Extra, Piston

Aurora, Safety

 

Their celluloid is just marvelous and they are soft and great to write with..

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Does a pen from the late 80's count as vintage? The only Italian I own that might be considered vintage is this Delta NDP56:

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Beautiful, graceful taper at the nib. Thanks, Cordovian! Yes! Vintage! (Whatever, it's nice to see!)

 

PS - I like that caramel ribbon barrel too.

James

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Beautiful, graceful taper at the nib. Thanks, Cordovian! Yes! Vintage! (Whatever, it's nice to see!)

 

PS - I like that caramel ribbon barrel too.

It's a beautiful writer too. Here's a couple more pics I took when researching it with Delta:

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