Has Anyone Pelikan Student Pens Collection?

[bbvnvlt]

On 12/29/2014 at 7:00 PM, idur53 said:

There are also other interesting cheap fountain pen models. These were probably about the end of the 80s made after Pelikan had taken over the company Laurin in Waiblingen. These pens can be recognized because the barrel was produced by injection molding machines, like the old Laurin pen. Also the nib unit complies with these ancient pens.

 

 

 

I wanted to add something (that I think is) interesting to this old discussion. I recently got one of these Waterman/Laurin pens as part of a bigger lot, but *without the Pelikan branding*. The cap is blank:

 

 

It really is the same pen, every detail matches. So either Laurin produced these before being taken over like these other ones (and didn't brand them):

 

 

Or otherwise they were produced under Pelikan as no-name pens as well... (?)

 

I love the the colors on these, by the way, especially the painted nib. These seem to be the only pens ever made like that? I've seen modern pens with colored nibs but that always seems to be a metallic coating, not glossy paint like this.

 

(Source for the images of the pink/purple pens and the one idur53 posted is: https://www.pelikan-collectibles.com/en/Pelikan/Surroundings/Laurin/index.html)

 

Edited December 15, 2025 by bbvnvlt

[inkstainedruth]

Not sure how I missed this thread before now.

I have a few low-end Pelikans: a couple of P22s (a Pelikan Culture P22 International 4 "MOOVIE" and a P22 "Chinatown") which I happened across a few years ago at OPS; and a 1988 era P10 Twist (teal with pink trim) that was swag from the local Pelikan Hub a couple of years ago (according to my notes, the P10s that people got were donated by Endless Pens for the Hub).

Ironically, my two most expensive pens are ALSO Pelikans: the M405 Stresemann and the M405 Blue Black.

I should put the P22s back into rotation at some point....  They were a nice size and weight and really cool fun designs and even with getting converters for them they were still inexpensive pens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[basterma]

On 12/15/2025 at 7:04 PM, bbvnvlt said:

 

I wanted to add something (that I think is) interesting to this old discussion. I recently got one of these Waterman/Laurin pens as part of a bigger lot, but *without the Pelikan branding*. The cap is blank:

 

 

It really is the same pen, every detail matches. So either Laurin produced these before being taken over like these other ones (and didn't brand them):

 

 

Or otherwise they were produced under Pelikan as no-name pens as well... (?)

 

I love the the colors on these, by the way, especially the painted nib. These seem to be the only pens ever made like that? I've seen modern pens with colored nibs but that always seems to be a metallic coating, not glossy paint like this.

 

(Source for the images of the pink/purple pens and the one idur53 posted is: https://www.pelikan-collectibles.com/en/Pelikan/Surroundings/Laurin/index.html)

 

I have a Pelikan bought in Libya in the 80's from the Stationery Items Distributor in Benghazi. It has the same clip, nib and feed as these pens, so I think this is a bottom end Pelikan design that they might OEM to other stationery companies.

[bbvnvlt]

Ha, interesting, @basterma. Do you have a picture? Or is it buried in a pen box/drawer somewhere?

 

I tried image searching for these multicolor Pelikan student pens and most of the results are on Iranian Persian language sites, for some reason...

[basterma]

It will take a while to dig it out of the box it is in. 

[basterma]

[bbvnvlt]

Thanks! Interesting. All black! An exception in this range, seeing all the colors in the overview on pelikan-collectibles.com. Looks to be this one:

 

 

With a flat cap instead of the spherical ends.

 

Yours also has a slightly different nib, without tipping material but with the end of the steel pinched/bent. What is that called?

[basterma]

On 12/30/2025 at 9:41 PM, bbvnvlt said:

Thanks! Interesting. All black! An exception in this range, seeing all the colors in the overview on pelikan-collectibles.com. Looks to be this one:

 

 

With a flat cap instead of the spherical ends.

 

Yours also has a slightly different nib, without tipping material but with the end of the steel pinched/bent. What is that called?

I don't think it is different from the one shown above. I call it a folded or pinched nib. I'm not sure what the technical term is.

[basterma]

So that link you shared had the Dauer feder pens at the bottom which finally answered an old question about a ballpoint and fountain pen set I bought in Malta in 1989. Solid was the brand and it was just a rebranded version of the green and black pens shown in the link. I lost the pen years ago though, but it was a smooth writing pen.

[bbvnvlt]

57 minutes ago, basterma said:

I don't think it is different from the one shown above. I call it a folded or pinched nib. I'm not sure what the technical term is.

You’re right. I meant that these mono-color flat-topped ones like you have are made with a ‘pinched’ nib while mine (and the others with rounded ends) have nibs with a ball of soldered-on tipping material.

[bbvnvlt]

Just this week I ran across another one of these without the Pelikan branding. Exact same pen as the one I already had, but in a color combination I've never seen before, *and* it has one of those (older?) 'pinched' nibs instead of a painted one with tipping material. Both were from Dutch sellers. This matches my theory that Laurin were already producing these before Pelikan took them over, making these pre-Pelikan pens instead of later no-name versions.

 

Here it is next to the one I posted earlier:

 

 

Sadly, the cap is very discolored . It used to be the same blue as the section, or perhaps the same darker blue of the cap of my other pen. You can just see the old color at the open end of the cap. The tip of the cap and the band between barrel and section also used to be the same purple.

 

EDIT: plugging my photos into Google lens turned up this Polish price-tracking site (?) where these are indeed listed as Laurin student pens:

 

 

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Bob

Edited January 5 by bbvnvlt