What's this?

[dare_nova]

I'm not keen on vintage pens so I have a problem whit this:

 

Sorry for quality.

[mmoncur]

Wow... that's an odd one.

 

It doesn't look very vintage since the filler looks like a twist converter.

 

Does that say CCCP in the second picture? Soviet origin perhaps?

[dare_nova]

Hi,

 

Yes, the mark says CCCP.

 

 

[Oxonian]

Hi Dare Nova,

 

It is quite possibly a 'Soviet' brand pen and a good quality one at that. If it did not have CCCP on it I would have said Centropen from what used to be Czecho-Slovakia, the filler looks very like one of theirs. Some of the top grade pens from the Soviet era were made for senior apparatchiks and for gifts to visiting overseas dignitaries and were very good indeed, the cheaper ones were like the Moskvitch car, solid, ugly and not very reliable and developed leaks without any warning. The very best examples can be in 9ct gold but gold filled ones are more usual so check for marks

Good ones are not very common so if the price is right I'd grab it, good quality examples of these pens very rarely make it to the British market or anywhere outside the old Warsaw Pact countries, I have seen a couple on visits to relatives.

 

Cheers, John

[sleek_lover]

Hi Dare Nova,

 

It is quite possibly a 'Soviet' brand pen and a good quality one at that. If it did not have CCCP on it I would have said Centropen from what used to be Czecho-Slovakia, the filler looks very like one of theirs. Some of the top grade pens from the Soviet era were made for senior apparatchiks and for gifts to visiting overseas dignitaries and were very good indeed, the cheaper ones were like the Moskvitch car, solid, ugly and not very reliable and developed leaks without any warning. The very best examples can be in 9ct gold but gold filled ones are more usual so check for marks

Good ones are not very common so if the price is right I'd grab it, good quality examples of these pens very rarely make it to the British market or anywhere outside the old Warsaw Pact countries, I have seen a couple on visits to relatives.

 

Cheers, John

 

Coupla thoughts..

First, the nib is very similar to both a Pelikan LEVEL nib and to the nib on a Mont Blanc 74/Generation pen. Also, I have a couple of Wing Sungs with similar nibs.

Second, Nathan Tardif got his hands on a Russion nib making machine a while ago. He got it going, from what I remember, but then I lost track of what was going on with that. I would guess Noodler's ink development came into the picture...but who knows.

 

I would suspect if the pen is of the quality of the Pel, go for it.

 

That said, does anyone know what happened with the nib machine Nathan bought? Not that I want it, but am just curious.

 

Bill

[dare_nova]

Thank you for priceless opinions.

 

Regards,

 

Dare

[inoxbord]

Dear Friend

 

I could see your pictures

Without any doubts this is a

 

1960 - SOYUS BIG GOLD QUILL

with 583 14 carat gold nib,

made by Soyus in Leningrad - USSR

wit pentagonal sign on the belt of the cap

and the sign CCCP on the cap.

 

Best regards

Inoxbord

Portugal

[goodguy]

I am very gelous,you got yourself a Soviet pen,they are not that common so take good care of it.

[readytotalk]

Sorry for necroposting.

It`s Soviet "Soyuz AR-95", 583/1000 gold nib, made in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersbourg), ca. 1980.