Pilot "Short" pen pocket calendar, 1968

[Leigh R]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/leighpod/pilotshort1968.jpg

 

I found this in a box that was like dust shaped into a box - together with my father's old Parker 75. I like thinking this came out the year before I was born. I still see ads like this today - pretty smiling girls holding pens. Although the pen nowadays is invariably a ballpoint.

 

[kissing]

Wow~~

 

That sure looks old school

Thanks for sharing

[umenohana]

60s makeup!

 

-Hana

[Rique]

She doesn´t look really Japanese, does she?

[saintsimon]

She doesn´t look really Japanese, does she?

That was my first impression of her, too ...

[kamakura-pens]

(Rique @ Nov 29 2006, 03:09 AM)

She doesn´t look really Japanese, does she?

I forget her name, but she appeared in many of Pilot's print and television commericals. I remember that she was an actress in many of Japan's "Trendy Drama's" Something like America's Soap Operas. As I remember it, Her father was Dutch and her mother was Japanese. There is a sort Bio about her in the "History Of PIlot" book. I'll look it up later, since the book is at the other house.

 

Stay Well

 

Dr. Ron Dutcher

http://www.lionandpen.com

[Akumar]

(kamakura-pens @ Nov 30 2006, 06:34 AM)

(Rique @ Nov 29 2006, 03:09 AM)She doesn´t look really Japanese, does she?

I forget her name, but she appeared in many of Pilot's print and television commericals. I remember that she was an actress in many of Japan's "Trendy Drama's" Something like America's Soap Operas. As I remember it, Her father was Dutch and her mother was Japanese. There is a sort Bio about her in the "History Of PIlot" book. I'll look it up later, since the book is at the other house.

 

Stay Well

 

Dr. Ron Dutcher

http://www.lionandpen.com

 

I myself have something similar and here it is

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2488/3674345705_d8a7bd763b_o.jpg

[rahulg]

I also happen to have come across the very same pen as Mr Kumar above. With a sweet XXF (or perhaps more?) nib, just enough springiness to act as 'suspensions' when a broader line is desired. Apparently these were quite a rage in India in the 70's, from what I hear (Thanks Hari! ).

 

And Leigh, thanks for the scan. Very early 60's, and might I add, collectible.

 

Regards,

 

Rahul G

[Akumar]

(rahulg @ Jul 3 2009, 09:03 PM) I also happen to have come across the very same pen as Mr Kumar above. With a sweet XXF (or perhaps more?) nib, just enough springiness to act as 'suspensions' when a broader line is desired. Apparently these were quite a rage in India in the 70's, from what I hear (Thanks Hari! ).

 

And Leigh, thanks for the scan. Very early 60's, and might I add, collectible.

 

Regards,

 

Rahul G

 

My father was gifted given a gold capped pen by a rich relative, such things were expensive in India, he never allowed me to touch it but then the pen disappeared somewhere I still remember how beautiful it looked in his hands.

till late sixties in our area we had only imported fountain pens until some companies from Bombay flooded Indian markets with cheap imitations of foreign brands specailly copies of Parker vacumatic and Sheaffer. In fact I distinctly remember one pen which had the body of a Parker vacumatic but filling mechanism was lever fill! it was quite a hit in Lucknow and many good doctors used it. I did not have the money to buy those pens and when I did have the money those guys stopped production!

[Bruno Taut]

 

 

I found this in a box that was like dust shaped into a box - together with my father's old Parker 75. I like thinking this came out the year before I was born. I still see ads like this today - pretty smiling girls holding pens. Although the pen nowadays is invariably a ballpoint.

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing the calendar add.

 

Checking the pen closely, I think it is a "telescopic pen", released in 1968. The barrel could be made longer --about 2 cm-- when needed. So, not exactly the same idea as the traditional pocket pen with long section, long cap, and short barrel.

 

According to Lambrou, or to whoever wrote the chapter on Japanese pens, that pen was marketed thinking of students.

The barrel is short.

 

The barrel is longer than in the previous pic.

 

Iosepus

[gwaldo]

I actually just posted about these pens a couple of days ago here: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/229263-identifying-a-pilot-pen

 

I picked up a pair of them on ebay for a bit less than $50 (incl shipping from Japan).

 

 

 

Unfortunately the red one doesn't write yet; I'm guessing that the feed needs a good cleaning/clearing. Also unfortunately, I'm having some difficulty disassembling the section; it's stuck together pretty well.

 

The black one writes nicely. I especially love that the Pilot CON-20 converter fits! I purchased these as my first foray into flexible nibs. I'm sure that they're no wet-noodle, but I can get a fair amount of line variation.

[gwaldo]

Checking the pen closely, I think it is a "telescopic pen", released in 1968.

 

Actually, I have one of these that's marked 1967, and the other is 1968.