Ta Tung 361 Mini

[h.farmawi]

Hello guys
so yesterday i was checking some antique shops and i found this cute cherry red Ta Tung 361 Mini fountain pen,

it was in perfect condition i just gave it a soak and cleaned it and wow this pen is really nice its a very small pen ''you will see it near a Sheaffer VFM in the pictures'' and i was surprised that the nib is accualy a flex nib!
as i know till now these pens are made in the 1960's in china but i dont know anything else about them so any help would be appreciated.

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[Scribblesoften]

That is a pretty cool pen. I saw the cap in the first photo and wondered where the rest of the pen was. The subsequent photos enlightened me. Don't push that nib too far. I have some of the older Chinese nibs and their flex seems to be based on thin metal and they can fail. Wonderful find. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Seele]

Ta Tung was a Shanghai-based brand which is no longer extant, and probably acquired by Wing Sung. From what I can figure out their pens were relatively affordable ones, and this one seems to be a child's pen a bit like the Panda pen by Golden Star. Ta Tung 717 is still easily available at Taobao which is a syringe filler, but the earlier 707 was a true piston filler, a relatively rare design in China. Hope this is of some interest.

[Scribblesoften]

Hope this is of some interest.

Always. Thank you.

[h.farmawi]

Ta Tung was a Shanghai-based brand which is no longer extant, and probably acquired by Wing Sung. From what I can figure out their pens were relatively affordable ones, and this one seems to be a child's pen a bit like the Panda pen by Golden Star. Ta Tung 717 is still easily available at Taobao which is a syringe filler, but the earlier 707 was a true piston filler, a relatively rare design in China. Hope this is of some interest.

Thanks !

[Sailor Kenshin]

That is one of the cutest, most unusual pens I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing the find!

[h.farmawi]

That is one of the cutest, most unusual pens I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing the find!

I agree, it is one cute FP

[bzip]

It reminds me my very first fountain pen in grade 3, when I was allowed to switch writing with a pen from a pencil. Wonderful memory!

[hu-327]

Wow, great info, thank goodness for this thread! I found a peach colored one today and tried to look it up online. Only found a Ta Tung 361 fridge for sale online lol. I tried to flex it too, but it railroaded almost instantly and then stopped writing altogether until I poked it into a piece of cardboard a couple times to get the ink flow going again.