Sss Pen

[Azuniga]

Hello I am posting these images for two reasons: I imagine someone would appreciate not having seen this pen before and I guess there is someone who would have more information.

I originally bought it many years ago because I loved the plastic closed tube, I have other tubes that happen to contain pencil leads, the seller in the flea market did not even know what it was.

Days later I opened and found out it was an ED… I though the brand was Moriyu and I never found out information with that name.

Some days ago in this forum I saw a list of Japanese pens and discovered SSS San Esu "The only perfect pen in the Orient", I remembered the inverted SSS in my pen, which I thought to be more a decoration than letters…

 

It is 12.7 cm closed.

 

The nib says:

Warranted, K 1 4 Gold No 3 Any information welcomed… Cheers

[AltecGreen]

SSS stands for Sun, Star, Sea. The actual company name started out as Nakamura-Syoukai and then changed to Hosonuma-Syoukai.

 

They started around 1913 and predates the current big three. They made quality pens and were market leaders before the war along with Pilot and Swan. I've seen some nice sterling overlay SS pens. They later transitioned to celluloid pens and died out around the 50's.

[Azuniga]

SSS stands for Sun, Star, Sea. The actual company name started out as Nakamura-Syoukai and then changed to Hosonuma-Syoukai.

 

They started around 1913 and predates the current big three. They made quality pens and were market leaders before the war along with Pilot and Swan. I've seen some nice sterling overlay SS pens. They later transitioned to celluloid pens and died out around the 50's.

 

Thank you for the information, very much appreciated...

Regards, Ariel

[watch_art]

That's awesome!

[haywoody]

Very cool, thanks for posting. I don't know much about SSS but have always lusted after the SSS Bulldog that is shown in Fountain Pens of the World.

 

/Woody

[tinta]

Azuniga, just so that I'm imagining it right,............ to cap the pen, do you slide the cap (sleeve) over the pen & screw it in, on the bottom?

If it is an ID pen, where does it un-screw for filling?

Looks like a wonderful pen!

 

tinta

 

ed: grammar

Edited February 14, 2012 by tinta

[Azuniga]

Azuniga, just so that I'm imagining it right,............ to cap the pen, do you slide the cap (sleeve) over the pen & screw it in, on the bottom?

If it is an ID pen, where does it un-screw for filling?

Looks like a wonderful pen!

 

tinta

 

ed: grammar

 

Tinta,

 

That is right, you slide the cap over the pen and screw it on the bottom... You have then a tube and not necessarily think it is a pen.

To fill the ink, you unscrew the barrel at the top, just where the decoration lines end / begin, below the nib section as most ED pens.

It does not hold too much ink but you can write three A4 pages easily.. I only used it once to test it. Smooth enough.

Regards, Ariel

[rudyhou]

great find! i must go to a flea market the next time i'm in japan.

[Nikolaos]

excellent find! Thanks very much for posting the photos.

 

Nikolaos