Interesting German School Pens?

[Ambien]

Hello,

 

Recently I've been interested in German fountain pens. I'd like to learn more about German school pens like the Geha Schulfüller. I've tried browsing ebay.de with limited success and I'm curious if anyone knows any similiar fountain pens in the same range. Thanks.

[SirVival]

Are you interested in vintage pens or the ones in use today / in recent years?

 

The old Pelikan school-grade fountain pen was the 120 as far as I know and these do show up on the German Ebay site quite a bit. More modern would be the Pelikano model from Pelikan and of course the Lamy Safari.

 

Concerning other vintage German school pens, I am sure someone whose golden school days are a little more removed can comment.

 

BTW, the Geha has a going rate around 30 and the 120 in the same range, with the occasional outlier.

[Scribblesoften]

Artus also made simple plastic school pens. They were piston fillers with decent ink capacity. Mine has a nice semi flex steel nib.

[Ambien]

Are you interested in vintage pens or the ones in use today / in recent years?

 

The old Pelikan school-grade fountain pen was the 120 as far as I know and these do show up on the German Ebay site quite a bit. More modern would be the Pelikano model from Pelikan and of course the Lamy Safari.

 

Concerning other vintage German school pens, I am sure someone whose golden school days are a little more removed can comment.

 

BTW, the Geha has a going rate around 30 and the 120 in the same range, with the occasional outlier.

 

I guess vintage school pens over modern ones. I already own a Lamy safari and Pelikan m205 atm. I can't find many Geha for sale in the US ebay.

Edited January 30, 2014 by Csrae

[oldmatekev]

Geha had an interesting feature on a lot of their pens, a kind of reserve tank. If the regular reservoir ran out you could push a little release button under the nib to activate a small reserve. It automatically filed and reset with the piston fill actuator when you refilled the pen.

 

Very cool.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Look in German Ebay, make sure they take Pay Pal and ship out of Germany, there are a number of idiots that don't. A bank transfer will cost you $35.00

 

A Geha school pen can be had for €10-12-15and some are asking 19...a big jump. Since German U-Boat Captains are selling them for $85 in the states.

 

My Artus pens have a normal vintage springy nib....won't say they are all school pens but are reasonable. I have one from right after the War and one in the up to mid '50's. I just thought of them as good second tier pens.

 

Soennecken made a school pen but costs big time.

 

MB made school pens in the 3xx ranges and had one or two sub brands for cheaper pens..Something Monta-Rosa???. I don't remember the name. It's probably some what more expensive now than it should be.. MB Noblesse, is/was/could be a school pen....sort of HS/Collage.

 

Piston School pen....Can get Reform 1745 dirt cheap...2 for €5.00...not marked regular flex had a F, I gave to my Godson, kept the EF. Also to be had as the P-120 and P-125, both more expensive. my god son now has... It took a couple of years fro the price to fall first €8 then to 5 for one...finally got mine at 2 for €5 in the German market became saturated.

The P 120 has a semi-hooded nib...and the "bigger" P-125 is only bigger when not posted. All three post to the same size...the 1745 is a long posting pen......best deal for the money...but is just regular flex...nothing else. Never heard of an M or B nib in them.....

 

The original Reform was a very, very good pen. It was so good wholesalers sent him money in advance right after the war so he could buy supplies...

I have two War pens, his regular and a pen he made for some one else...both real sturdy pens...war nib is not all that good...I'd not worry about that.

When ball points was killing his factory, he refused to make a cheap pen to compete with the cheap Pelikano and later Geha school pens...which can be had in Cartridge....

He closed down his factory....a few years later he sold his factory and name to a German name I should know but don't Mulchhousian or something (Thats so bad spelled, it sounds more like the famous German teller of tall tales, who claimed to have ridden a cannonball......) Also made Edo pens...a 3rd tier pen.

 

The rumor is that company sold it's 1745 machinery and name to China. Still for the price can not be beat. The original sales gig was some one had found some '90's pallets of the pen.....must have been the worlds biggest pallets. Super Dome size.

 

Stella has a rolled round nib...just a 4th tier cheap pen. I'd not buy another one. I sent one to the States as a gift and it got cracked in the mail. None of the other pens had damage, they must have X-rayed the package...breaking the pen. don't buy.

 

Seen Senator in cheap cartridge pens, Were third tier. Could be some of the better of theirs can be had cheap. Their now top of the line looks like a MB 149, cartridge....MB took them to court and lost. (MB 146-9 looks like a Sheaffer New Balance clone.)

 

Diplomat can be had reasonably, is a good solid pen...no idea if they had a school pen.

 

An old Kawico Sport piston filler...I've not looked, too small for me, in I own a shirt pocket. And golf shirts can be had with pockets.

Edited January 30, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[Rose Nibs]

I have acquired a couple of Stylus pens from a Hungarian seller, well-made piston fillers with hooded nibs, maybe late 40s or early 50s. One has a Goldin nib, the other just has 'iridium tipped' on the nib. I posted pictures on another thread but no one could tell me anything about them. They look like German school pens to me. I get the impression that there were a lot of German brands post-war, though probably not so many manufacturers as there were brands.

[ceac]

+1 for the Reform 1745

 

look on ebay.de and search for 'füllfederhalter' or 'füllfeder' or 'füller'

although a lot of sellers won't ship abroad, there's also that will if you ask them..