Duke Fountain Pens

[Corp.]

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Edited April 12, 2020 by Corp.

[terim]

To me it look a regular Chinese pen, and somebody registered the brand in Germany to give the impression it is a German pen.

Similar toghe situation of cangarou pens, which sounds Australia, but aga9n they are just chinese pens.

 

That has always been my impression, too. We bought a large number of them a few years ago and most are now sold. The quality was surprisingly good, though they were rather heavy and had boring one-size-fits-all nibs. There were quite a few that had 14k nibs.

[basterma]

As a foreigner in China, Duke seems to be eclipsed by Picasso. Picasso seems to have a more consistent approach between pens and feels more cohesive in their marketing. You get hits for Picasso pens earlier in Taobao and the pictures posted seem to be coming from a marketing department that is more slick. Duke's marketing looks like it was taken by someone getting ready for a garage sale or ebay. Duke seems to be filling the niche for people uninspired by Hero, but too conservative to risk a newer brand like Jinhao, Picasso or N9. When you go to the tourist trap markets in Beijing, the pens you find are the fake Montblancs and Parkers, the Heros, Jinhaos, and banished to the corner will be a few Dukes.

[eachan]

I had one ten years ago, a great heavy thing made out of brass coated with lacquer. It had more to do with plumbing pipework than proper fountain pen manufacture. Just another Chinese pen of the time. Most Chinese pens are better than that now.

[mke]

Actually, the question was not if this is a German pen or not - it is clear that it is at least manufactured in China (like, I was told, Cross pens). My question was "what is their relationship to Germany". Looking at the comments, nobody knows.

It is a strange company, in the name is written German, the HP is located in Poland.

 

Now regarding the one nib size comment. I actually see 4 different nib(size)s in the picture below. Especially, the #6 nibs are very good.

 

[terim]

Actually, the question was not if this is a German pen or not - it is clear that it is at least manufactured in China (like, I was told, Cross pens). My question was "what is their relationship to Germany". Looking at the comments, nobody knows.

It is a strange company, in the name is written German, the HP is located in Poland.

 

Now regarding the one nib size comment. I actually see 4 different nib(size)s in the picture below. Especially, the #6 nibs are very good.

 

 

While different models had different sized nibs, I never found any variation in nib width among the stock of a single model. We had dozens of the 911 "Shark" pens and they all had the same medium-fine nib.