Informal Review - Wing Sung Lucky Celluloid

[sanyalsoumitra]

 Hand-written review and few photos. Welcome comments.

Best regards

Soumitra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mesu]

Hi Soumitra,

 

Beautiful pen.. is this material celluloid or acrylic?

[sanyalsoumitra]

possibly celluloid as I can recall, but unable to trace the old listing to verify. Any simple test?

[Mesu]

Found a listing on ebay.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Quality-goods-beautiful-WingSung-271-Fountain-Pens-celluloid-1992s-/111032051676?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19da06a7dc

[sanyalsoumitra]

Thank you. I must have bought from him. But how to ensure if celluloid or pearly acrylic ? any advise?

[Scribblesoften]

This is the Wing Sung Lucky 271. They are fun pens with Pelikanesque details. They have clips and top hats that are definite homages. Something that most people do not know about this model pen, is that the 78G/Metropolitan sections can screw into the body.

[i4sgeorgiev]

Great pen,

I'll certainly buy one.

[richardandtracy]

Pretty certain they are not celluloid, just look like it.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[Scribblesoften]

They are a rolled sheet material of some type. I believe they are in fact inexpensive celluloid.

[subbucal]

Best way to say if its celluloid or acrylic is by gauging the depth of shades. From picture it does look like acrylic. But, only Soumitra can say it for sure

[Tweel]

They are a rolled sheet material of some type. I believe they are in fact inexpensive celluloid.

 

The seam, and the bubbles in the material, look like celluloid to me.

[richardandtracy]

Amazing at this price then.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[Aramchek]

I remember that mine is a terrible writer, but I've forgotten what the problem was. I'll try putting an MR section on it since it seems a shame to let a pen that after all is rather pretty go to waste. That will have to wait though since it seems to have gone into hiding.

[Scribblesoften]

Wing Sung made at least two models from this type of material. The 271, the pen shown, and the 270. The 270 is more of a cigar shaped pen and has a metal sleeve extending back from the section into the body of the pen. The 271 is also available in plastic and feels pretty junky with a ratting squeeze converter. I no longer have a 270 to test with a Pilot 78G/Metropolitan/MR/Cocoon section, but they definitely fit in the 271. Incidentally, the 270 was available with a gold nib as well as the steel. I will have to take a picture of the mock Pelikan frankenpen I assembled some time ago later today and post it here if readers are interested.

Edited March 5, 2014 by Scribblesoften

[hari317]

Genuine Celluloid: Cellulose Nitrate, will smell of camphor if you rub and sniff the material.

[sanyalsoumitra]

I have acquired another variant of this model recently , after a near three year gap. Quite fascinated by this pen and I even wrote down a formal reveiw . I am sharing some photos of the pen and three pages of hand written review. Apologies for poor picture quality, as I get some time I will type the formal review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hari317]

nice pen. I have a different wing sung model with gold nib, same material.

[TheDutchGuy]

I have acquired another variant of this model recently , after a near three year gap. Quite fascinated by this pen and I even wrote down a formal reveiw . I am sharing some photos of the pen and three pages of hand written review. Apologies for poor picture quality, as I get some time I will type the formal review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have the exact same pen, recently found at a yard sale. Except mine has a different nib and feed:

 

Edited September 6, 2018 by TheDutchGuy

[doggle2]

I like it, except I hate the celluloid.