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Hello all. I'm pretty new to FPN, and I'm wondering if you can help me with a question about the authenticity of my Pilot Vanishing Point Decimo. I received the pen today, and when I opened it up to put in some ink I noticed that the nib is unlike any other Pilot VP nib I have ever seen. I have been looking online for hours, but I can't find a single image of a Pilot VP nib that looks like what I have in front of me. I'm thinking that I might have received a counterfeit.


Has anybody ever seen or even heard of a Pilot VP nib that looks like this one does?



Image Link (because the site is being slow for me and I can't post the images here): https://imgur.com/a/1dceyCa



Short Description: The nib has these sort of cut outs in the base, where the nib and feed join with the metal tube. The "wings" that wrap around the bottom of the feed and hold the nib and feed together are also different.




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It looks the same as the EF nib in the Pilot deep red birch VP I ordered and received from Japan this month; and, yes, it looks different from the ten other Pilot Capless nibs I have, but then this is my first EF nib. (All the rest I bought in past years are F and M nibs.)

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There are no fake or counterfeit Pilot Vanishing Point pens. There have never been any fake or counterfeit Pilot Vanishing Point pens in the 50+ years of the pen's history. Your pen is absolutely, 100% authentic.

 

 

Your nib has a very recent manufacturing date of April, 2018. It's much more likely that Pilot made a minor change to the design and the newer nibs are just trickling out on to the market.

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Hello all. I'm pretty new to FPN, and I'm wondering if you can help me with a question about the authenticity of my Pilot Vanishing Point Decimo. I received the pen today, and when I opened it up to put in some ink I noticed that the nib is unlike any other Pilot VP nib I have ever seen. I have been looking online for hours, but I can't find a single image of a Pilot VP nib that looks like what I have in front of me. I'm thinking that I might have received a counterfeit.

Has anybody ever seen or even heard of a Pilot VP nib that looks like this one does?

Image Link (because the site is being slow for me and I can't post the images here): https://imgur.com/a/1dceyCa

Short Description: The nib has these sort of cut outs in the base, where the nib and feed join with the metal tube. The "wings" that wrap around the bottom of the feed and hold the nib and feed together are also different.

 

DurgonFly..Welcome....Enjoy your time here....And new Vanishing Point....

 

Fred

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There are no fake or counterfeit Pilot Vanishing Point pens. There have never been any fake or counterfeit Pilot Vanishing Point pens in the 50+ years of the pen's history. Your pen is absolutely, 100% authentic.

 

 

Your nib has a very recent manufacturing date of April, 2018. It's much more likely that Pilot made a minor change to the design and the newer nibs are just trickling out on to the market.

How can you be sure there are no counterfeits? I had three VPs in different colours and each had a silver/nickle coloured nib with engraving "Pilot 18k750 M" on each. All were medium, write beautifully and cost me £145 each. In London recently I bought another from what seemed a reputable stationery shop and paid £125. It does not write as nicely and it has a gold nib, supposedly medium, engraved "Pilot M 750" although it feels more like a fine nib. I am wondering whether this is counterfeit given the cheaper price and the poorer writing experience. Can you explain the difference for me?

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DurgonFly....Hope you're still enjoyin' your new pen.....If you ever come back..

please let us know....One (1) post is not enough.......

Fred

Again....that mischievous invisible Unicorn was hangin' out in my garage.........

Don't believe me.....Prove me wrong...........Listening to

Don't Start Me Talkin'.......Sonny Boy Williamson

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How can you be sure there are no counterfeits? I had three VPs in different colours and each had a silver/nickle coloured nib with engraving "Pilot 18k750 M" on each. All were medium, write beautifully and cost me £145 each. In London recently I bought another from what seemed a reputable stationery shop and paid £125. It does not write as nicely and it has a gold nib, supposedly medium, engraved "Pilot M 750" although it feels more like a fine nib. I am wondering whether this is counterfeit given the cheaper price and the poorer writing experience. Can you explain the difference for me?

 

Unplated gold nibs do exist... My oldest Vanishing Point (the faceted barrel, one piece nose) has

 

Unplated gold

Pilot

14K585

<B>

 

My modern/current Vanishing Points are:

 

Rhodium plated

Pilot

18K750

<SU>

 

and

 

Gold

Pilot

14K585

<F>

 

Decimo is

 

Rhodium plated

Pilot

18K750

<M>

 

Interesting... the indexing key/knob on the 14K nibs is quite square [=], whereas the 18K nibs have rounded ends (=). I suspect both the 14K units are late 80s or early 90s models.

 

I'll concede the exact marking you report does seem rather less than complete. It may mean someone IS doing things with compatible nib/sections -- but the rest of the pen could easily be a real Pilot body.

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Thanks Baron. I should add that yellow tone of the body of the cheaper pen is different to the yellow of the more expensive pen, again leaving question marks in my mind. I should have been more thorough when buying it!

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In London recently I bought another from what seemed a reputable stationery shop and paid £125. It does not write as nicely and it has a gold nib, supposedly medium, engraved "Pilot M 750" although it feels more like a fine nib.

 

Some Pilot Capless Vanishing Point models legitimately come fitted with 'special alloy' nibs that are yellow/gold in colour. That said, the '750' marking does not make sense as a production date code (whereas, say, '705' — meaning July 2005 — would). Could you show us a picture of the nib's markings?

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Actually i wrote the wrong number: its 716 so is that July 2016?

Yes.

 

I guess you bought yourself a Pilot Capless pen with the model number FCN-1MR-DY that is fitted with a 'special alloy' nib. That's not a fake.

 

How do you post a picture here?

Embed the markdown string of [img="image_URL] in your post. If you want FPN to host the image for you (N.B. once you upload an image to FPN, you will not have the ability to delete it yourself from the database or make changes to that copy), use the Upload facility to which a link is provided in the navigational bar right below the banner at the top of each page .

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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I can't get the photo thing working but the nib is the same as the photo posted by Karmakoda on 18th July 2013 in the forum "Is my Vanishing Point the current design. Elsewhere i read that the special alloy nib was for the Japanese domestic market. I remember the lady in the shop saying they had gone out to Japan to source the pens so it seems I have one targeted at the domestic Japanese market.

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