Fascinating No Name Pens

[mhguda]

Lexaf,

Your green "demonstrator" is the same model as the leftmost blue one in my picture, I think. Although yours is more transparent than mine. I do not think the plastic is that bad - as you can see, I have a number of them, both recent buys and older ones, and they have never given me any trouble. And they are good writers, out of the bubble pack, no flushing, rinsing, or anything. All seven of them (I did not show all my Bruynzeels). I've made one into an eyedropper-filled pen, just to see if I could, and since at that time I did not have silicone grease, and wanted to try this, I used teflon tape to seal the threads (yes I know, not good - I used very little and did not tighten too much). That was about six months ago. It's still working flawlessly, never a leak and writes without skipping...

I love it when these cheap pens are great writers.

[Lexaf]

More please? Lovely pics!

 

Thank you all for the compliments...

 

You want more? You get more!

Look here:

http://www.fountainp...lois-continued/

 

Have fun.

[Lexaf]

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I love it when these cheap pens are great writers.

 

Yes it is. And that makes it a very affordable hobby!

 

Maybe I just had bad luck with my Bruynzeels. I had 4 of them, a (dark)blue, a red, a yellow and a green. The blue, the green and the yellow all cracked at about the same place: where they are screwed onto the section. Probably a weak point. Maybe I forced them. I've got big hands.

I did not care too much because I also own the 'demonstrator' line, almost all colors, of the Waterman Cultur series. ( the low budget version of the Waterman Phileas). The transparent plastic of these pens is of a very high quality and they are awesome writers.

Actually I used one of these as an eyedroppen for quite some time. It took almost a quarter bottle of ink that way! I did use a thin O ring + silicone to seal it. Imagine all that ink leaking out... Brrrrr....

Maybe I will show these Watermans another time, but then, that will be a totally other story....

[mollygirl]

Maybe I will show these Watermans another time, but then, that will be a totally other story....

 

Keep us posted - I'm sure many of us would like to see them.

[georges zaslavsky]

thank you for sharing these uncommon and rare beauties lexaf :clap1:

[Lexaf]

You identify the pen in the picture with the Bermont lever filler and the same celluloid as a button filler. Both of those pens look like they have levers to me. :hmm1:

 

Thank you for sharing your article.

 

@ raine

Yes you are totally right! My mistake in the description. They are both Lever fillers!

Thank you for the correction.

[Penny Lane]

Finding out what's what from only pointers is almost always interesting... I think I may follow this thread for a bit!

 

Also, there's this fountain pen I've posted about ages ago: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/224758-vendex-artus-perfect/ (and I do need to take some better pics of it!)

 

It's a 'Vendex' labelled Artus Perfect, so engraved on the barrel and on the clip. I can't think of anyone else but V&D (Vendex, now Maxeda, being their parent company) being the guilty party in having these labelled Vendex... The nib on this one is engraved 'Lamy'. The nib on this one was terrible, by the way; dry as a bone and terribly scratchy, with nearly unpolished tipping. Probably why it survived almost without signs of use. It's a good writer by now though. Lex, do you have any further clues as to a V&D/Vendex - Lamy/Artus connection?

 

Cheers,

Derk

[Blackandwhite]

A very interesting topic, really. I do own some of these "no name" brands, or very "small" brands You are writing about aswell I have been searching around to find out where the pens came from... I love most of them, because some of them, even if they are not looking glamorous, are pretty good writing instruments with lovely flexible nibs.

So thank You for this posting. Also because it openly says what the pen lovers with lower budgets know...or should know.