What did I find?

January 16, 2021

This was at an antique clock shop, so I bought it. It is a cartridge filler, had a box of name brand cartridges, and a very small booklet with instructions and a place for a dealer stamp (unused). The story is, is that it was a gift to the gentleman's father, but had never been used. There was a cartridge in it, but it had long since dried up. Upon inspection, all the rest were dried up as well, although they had never been used. I have the section soaking currently to get all the dried ink out.

Question #2. Reading the book, It states to use cold water for cleaning in all caps. Why is this? I have always used warm water for cleaning, as it seems to aid in breaking down the old inks faster?

Question #3. All repairs are supposed to be sent to Koh-i-Noor Rapidograph. What?? Does this mean I bought a fake?

Thank you for any help.

Eric

January 16, 2021

It looks like a MB 144 cartridges and converter filler..nice pocket pen. Regards.

January 16, 2021

May just have wrong booklet. I agree probably 144 classic. I was taught and always have used cool water for cleaning my Fountain Pens.

January 16, 2021

The cold water instruction could be a hangover from the days of ebonite pens: warm water oxidises ebonite faster.

It could also just be out of an abundance of caution. If you tell people to use warm water some of them will probably use boiling water that might damage plastic (precious resin) parts.

January 17, 2021

30 minutes ago, loganrah said:

A instrução da água fria pode ser uma ressaca dos dias das canetas de ebonite: a água quente oxida a ebonite mais rápido.

Também pode ser apenas por excesso de cautela. Se você disser às pessoas para usarem água morna, algumas delas provavelmente usarão água fervente, que pode danificar as peças de plástico (resina preciosa).

Coincidentally, a few years ago I bought a MB 144 with food damaged by hot water,

I had never seen this type of damage, the coverslips were all folded forward, the only solution was to replace them.

So my pens stay away even from the coffee cup ...

January 17, 2021

Koh-i-noor used to be the US distributor for MB before they used their own boutiques. Probably just s pen from the 1980s or so. Box looks age appropriate.

January 20, 2021

Thank you for the help everyone. I cleaned the pen up, soaked the section until it no longer turned the water colors, and flushed the feed out several times. Let it set out until it was dry, and put it up until its turn in the que to be used. I am anxious to see how this pen will write!

again, thank you all.

Eric