Can Anyone Identify This Vintage Pilot?

[De-Ruyter]

Hello everyone,

 

I recently bought this Pilot off of eBay that seems to have been purchased for someone at/by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The profile looks an awful lot like the Pilot Custom Original, but the Pilots I've seen that come in this kind of packaging usually date from the late 1970's. Is this just an older Pilot Custom Original, or is this a different model from Pilot?

 

 

[mke]

wow, a good example of how to destroy a pen

marketing people don't think through the whole process of gift giving

 

most probably, the receiver thought like this and stored it deep down in a drawer

 

try to find a replacement barrel - then it will be a nice pen

[inkstainedruth]

wow, a good example of how to destroy a pen

marketing people don't think through the whole process of gift giving

 

most probably, the receiver thought like this and stored it deep down in a drawer

 

try to find a replacement barrel - then it will be a nice pen

 

I have a Pelikan M200 like that. It has the Bayer Aspirin logo on it. Box looked almost mint, pen had probably never seen ink before I got it.

On the plus side, it was free (a sort of joke gift from a friend, and she got it on Freecycle so she didn't cost her anything except a little gas to get it).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ehemem]

Doesn't look like an original Pilot Custom to me. For one thing, the clip is different, and it doesn't say "CUSTOM" on the cap ring. That actually is 2 things. My best guess would be that this is some low priced model imprinted with the company ad and given away as cheep swag...

 

ETA: And the nib is wrong for a Custom original...

Edited August 4, 2017 by ehemem

[De-Ruyter]

Doesn't look like an original Pilot Custom to me. For one thing, the clip is different, and it doesn't say "CUSTOM" on the cap ring. That actually is 2 things. My best guess would be that this is some low priced model imprinted with the company ad and given away as cheep swag...

When I refer to Pilot Custom Original, I mean the FK-700R which is simply referred to as the Pilot Custom but usually gets "Original" tagged on to differentiate the specific model from the line as a whole. It lacks a "CUSTOM" marking on the cap ring, and the profile looks very similar to this pen. You can see it in Pilot's catalog here - http://www.pilot.co.jp/products/pen/fountain/fountain/custom/

 

My best guess as of now is that this pen held a similar entry position into the Pilot Custom line during the 1970's, but I have had no luck in finding the actual model. I'm hoping someone is familiar enough with Pilot's pens from the 1970's to be able to definitely identify this one.