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Thank you, a very useful link!

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For those tragic pen enthusiasts, like me, who may be interested in Geha Pens, the following link to Werner Rüttinger's site has some very good information.

 

 

 

WHOA!!.. Why are we tragic??.. I love my Geha's... :wub: :wub:

 

 

Thanks so much for the link. :D

 

 

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  • 3 months later...

Happy to find and reawaken a thread that had wound down...

I've come into a Geha Goldschwinge 725 from the early 1960's, a really handsome pen in great condition. I do understand that these things are really prone to hairline cap cracks, and I think this one has one but not more. The winged gold nib ("Goldschwinge") is beautiful, a clear salute to Sheaffer's contemporaneous inlaid nibs; one source (happily my German is mostly up to the task) politely uses the verb "angleichen"...as in "takes after". It also has a soft broad nib...

Of greatest interest to me, however, is the Reservtank, the little extra ink reservoir. While I have the original Geha instructions (in German, of course), I'm curious if there are any tips I should know in advance. Here's the pen, nib, and a shot of the reserve tank's release lever under the nib:

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What should I know?

 

Thanks!

 

Tim

 

Tim

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  • 3 years later...

I'm a keen collector of vintage student fountain pens (mostly Pelikano and Montblanc Carrera), because that's where the whole fountain pen obsession started for me. Only recently did I acquire my first vintage Geha, a Geha Jeans fountain pen/ ballpoint pen set. While I vaguely remember Geha pen ads from when I was living as a kid in Germany, I have never actually used a Geha, until now that is. With Geha cartridges out of production, I followed the advice, given elsewhere in this forum, i.e. to use a Lamy cartridge and insert it in reverse. That worked great.

 

The bit that I am interested in learning more about the reserve tank. I get how the red tab is pushed in (although the one that I have shows a fair bit of resistance, so I haven't actually pushed it in), because that's clearly shown in the instructions. The bit that I do not get is how you get the red tab back out, so that I can use the reserve tank again later. The instructions are completely silent about that. Does anyone know how to get the reserve tank tab back out? I would really appreciate a reply.

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I have GeHa with a piston filler, and when the piston is advanced maximally during an ink fill, the reserve tank tab resets itself. I’ve never used a GeHa with a cartridge, however, perhaps it resets when a new cartridge is inserted? If not, perhaps there is enough of a difference between the original cartridge and the Lamy cartridge that it doesn’t reset. FPN member Bobo Olson often comments on GeHa threads and has considerable experience with GeHa pens (although he usually eschews cartridge pens because of unavailability of original carts). If he doesn’t post on this thread, you might send a PM to him.

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Hallo Herr Jäger,

 

Thanks very much for the quick response. I will give that a go, i.e. press in the reserve tank and see if inserting a new cartridge will do the trick. I've still got an old empty GeHa cartridge.

 

Thanks,

 

Ollie

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