Vintage Pilot- F Saturn

[InkNsap]

Hello pen pals! 
 

I just purchased my first vintage FP. A Pilot F ‘Saturn’ in yellow. But I can’t find any information online about the pen. Is it even a real Pilot? Hopefully.

 

If anyone has one or knows anything about the pen, I’d love to hear from you. 
 

x,

Tina

[Karmachanic]

 

[InkNsap]

Wow! Thank you so much for that! I loved reading that thread. ☺️🤓
 

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3 hours ago, Karmachanic said:

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Karmachanic beat me to the punch.  Your pen looks a lot like mine.  It is a Pilot, but Pilot-USA won't admit to it, even though it has a Pilot marked nib and converter.  Apparently the Saturn model was made in Korea specifically for the Korean market.  I don't use it much (it's a pretty skinny pen), but I should dig it back out.   Found it by chance in an antiques store about an hour and a half northeast of Pittsburgh, along with a Parker Laidtone Duofold -- roughly ten bucks each.  

I was in the same place over the summer, and spotted what I thought at first was an Esterbrook J series pen -- turned out to be a Waterman (unknown model) with the lever broken off.  And the guy GAVE me the pen because he claimed he couldn't sell it....  

Weird how life works, isn't it?  

[InkNsap]

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1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Karmachanic beat me to the punch.  Your pen looks a lot like mine.  It is a Pilot, but Pilot-USA won't admit to it, even though it has a Pilot marked nib and converter.  Apparently the Saturn model was made in Korea specifically for the Korean market.  I don't use it much (it's a pretty skinny pen), but I should dig it back out.   Found it by chance in an antiques store about an hour and a half northeast of Pittsburgh, along with a Parker Laidtone Duofold -- roughly ten bucks each.  

I was in the same place over the summer, and spotted what I thought at first was an Esterbrook J series pen -- turned out to be a Waterman (unknown model) with the lever broken off.  And the guy GAVE me the pen because he claimed he couldn't sell it....  

Weird how life works, isn't it?  

 

That’s amazing! I was in a coffee break teams meeting today and I mentioned that I started collecting FP expecting bored looks from everyone but actually a co-worker approached me and asked to see what I had. Another one told me her mum collected pens and she inherited them but doesn’t know what to do with them, so I found myself offering my services to help her catalog them. She told me the collection is over +100 pens 😅 

Will post about the little job here in FPN. 
 

Life is weird sometimes. The boyfriend is still not impressed with my new hobby. 

[InkNsap]

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1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Karmachanic beat me to the punch.  Your pen looks a lot like mine.  It is a Pilot, but Pilot-USA won't admit to it, even though it has a Pilot marked nib and converter.  Apparently the Saturn model was made in Korea specifically for the Korean market.  I don't use it much (it's a pretty skinny pen), but I should dig it back out.   Found it by chance in an antiques store about an hour and a half northeast of Pittsburgh, along with a Parker Laidtone Duofold -- roughly ten bucks each.  

I was in the same place over the summer, and spotted what I thought at first was an Esterbrook J series pen -- turned out to be a Waterman (unknown model) with the lever broken off.  And the guy GAVE me the pen because he claimed he couldn't sell it....  

Weird how life works, isn't it?  

 

The seller I got it from in Etsy has loads! Some really beautiful ones... I chose the one looked most interesting to me. There’s a stripped white, red, black. A checkered red as well... and many other ‘weird’ pilot models. 

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, InkNsap said:

That’s amazing! I was in a coffee break teams meeting today and I mentioned that I started collecting FP expecting bored looks from everyone but actually a co-worker approached me and asked to see what I had. Another one told me her mum collected pens and she inherited them but doesn’t know what to do with them, so I found myself offering my services to help her catalog them. She told me the collection is over +100 pens 😅 

Will post about the little job here in FPN. 
 

Life is weird sometimes. The boyfriend is still not impressed with my new hobby. 

Yeah, my husband is the same way....  He sort of rolls his eyes a lot.  He does sort of like the older Vanishing Point I found in an antiques and collectibles store a few years ago, once I swapped out the F nib assembly for an EF (I bought myself a Decimo because an F nib was okay for me but then lost the pen and had to get a replacement) -- but he never actually uses it, AFAIK.  So the Lord only knows what shape it's in now....   Probably the ink is long since dried up....  And I have no clue what he did with the three pens he bought at an antiques fair about a year or so ago -- some unidentified Waterman, a Parker 51 Special (IIRC) and a Demi-size Parker 51 -- I want to see whether the Demi is Midnight Blue or Teal but he's squirreled them away someplace....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mizgeorge]

I haven't got that pen, but the seller is lovely - I got an uber-cheap pilot Juliet (gold nib) there which I might just replace if there are any left as I gifted it away. The one thing I do remember is that the feed needed a really good scrub with a fair bit of detergent to get it working properly.

[stan]

10 hours ago, InkNsap said:

Hello pen pals! 
 

I just purchased my first vintage FP. A Pilot F ‘Saturn’ in yellow. But I can’t find any information online about the pen. Is it even a real Pilot? Hopefully.

 

If anyone has one or knows anything about the pen, I’d love to hear from you. 
 

x,

Tina

 

Your pen is a Korean model. Not sold in Japan. The logo on the sticker is Korean Industrial Standard.

Very nice pen. Gold plated nib.

 

Pilot does not advertise they make pens for the Korean market. I've seen a few that hint they were made in Korea but were made in Japan. Some others suggest Korean made or assembled from Japanese parts.

 

Unless you want to sell it to me, should be a keeper.

[InkNsap]

Thank you so much for the info! I was hopeful about my new vintage pen. First vintage pen that I thought: oh I can afford that! 
 

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16 hours ago, mizgeorge said:

I haven't got that pen, but the seller is lovely - I got an uber-cheap pilot Juliet (gold nib) there which I might just replace if there are any left as I gifted it away. The one thing I do remember is that the feed needed a really good scrub with a fair bit of detergent to get it working properly.

 

15 hours ago, stan said:

 

Your pen is a Korean model. Not sold in Japan. The logo on the sticker is Korean Industrial Standard.

Very nice pen. Gold plated nib.

 

Pilot does not advertise they make pens for the Korean market. I've seen a few that hint they were made in Korea but were made in Japan. Some others suggest Korean made or assembled from Japanese parts.

 

Unless you want to sell it to me, should be a keeper.

 

 

[InkNsap]

He at least has shown some interest. Mine is almost resentful of the pens. I don’t know why 🤷🏻‍♀️
 

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17 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, my husband is the same way....  He sort of rolls his eyes a lot.  He does sort of like the older Vanishing Point I found in an antiques and collectibles store a few years ago, once I swapped out the F nib assembly for an EF (I bought myself a Decimo because an F nib was okay for me but then lost the pen and had to get a replacement) -- but he never actually uses it, AFAIK.  So the Lord only knows what shape it's in now....   Probably the ink is long since dried up....  And I have no clue what he did with the three pens he bought at an antiques fair about a year or so ago -- some unidentified Waterman, a Parker 51 Special (IIRC) and a Demi-size Parker 51 -- I want to see whether the Demi is Midnight Blue or Teal but he's squirreled them away someplace....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

[KimSR]

That was made in Korea by a company named PILOT (Korea). Not the same company as the original Japanese PILOT but PILOT (Korea) had licences to manufacture designs from Japan.

 

I can see that because, on the Tag, next to the letter 'F', is the KS mark, which stands for Korean Standard. You can see a big S around the smaller K.

 

I know because in the 80's my family ran a small stationery store in Korea. And yes we had the same model, albeit of different color. I think what we had was white.