Hungarian Pens

December 20, 2014

Hello Ariel
No, JUSKA is a German fountain pen from Julius Steinmann Kaiserslautern / Germany. The pens look exactly like the old Orthos made by Lamyin the early 30th, pretty sure the same guy made them.
Kind Regards
Thomas

Thank you Thomas for the information about the manufacturer and clarifying it.

Regards, Ariel

December 30, 2014

Just stumbled across a number of Hungarian FPs up for auction on the bay. Here's a link.

Don't know anything about 'em, no affiliation with the seller, etc., but thought they'd be of interest.

EDIT: I couldn't figure out how to link to the Hungarian pens only -- apologies!

Interesting.

I never realized that so many manufacturers copied the Parker arrow clip.

Edited December 30, 2014 by Venemo

December 31, 2014

I hope that we never will do any historic research with the help of ebay sellers.

There is no evidance that Parker had been the first pen maker who used the arrow clip.

Kind Regards

Thomas

December 31, 2014

I hope that we never will do any historic research with the help of ebay sellers.
There is no evidance that Parker had been the first pen maker who used the arrow clip.

Sorry. I somehow assumed that they had been, but then, it may have been a false assumption. Sorry.

February 10, 2022

This thread has been amazing to read - I have lost a whole morning to it! I have a pen which was sold to me as a Toz Penkala, but which I now know has the 1930s ornate Tatra logo on the clip. The pen is branded Kolinska, which as many of you will know manufactures the wonderful Cockta communist-era Jugoslavian coca cola substitute! Since Kolinska is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Toz in Zagreb, Croatia, perhaps the 1930s Tatra was a Jugoslavian brand? (Cockta itself dates from the 1950s when it was invented by Slovenija vino. Kolinska bought the brand in 2000.)

February 10, 2022

And now today I find on eBay an Apollo pen, made in Hungary, which is exactly like another Tatra pen I own. Someone in this thread suggested that someone was selling pens under many brand names, and perhaps this is an example of that.

January 21, 2023

I went to an estate sale a few weeks ago and the gentleman was from hungry. He sold me his school boy collection of fountain pens. Including a Kaweco Elite 187. Most of these pens are in marked but one has me intrigued and might be German or Hungarian.

I am almost done restoring it and it is a push button. Writes well. But the nib has me baffled and there are no markings on the barrel.