Brown tortoiseshell pattern

[poti67]

Dear All,

 

I have just purchased a tortoise shell m800 and I notice that the pattern is not regular as on my green stripes. They do not all have the same width. For example, there are clusters of stripes that are +/- 1mm wide and other clusters of stripes that are +/- 0.2mm wide.

 

Do your tortoiseshell have similar irregular patterns or do they have very regular ones like on a green striped pen?

 

thank you in advance

[Barutti]

as both Pelikans on my office desk, there is side by side photo. I hope it helps to notice irregular stipes on tortoise. 

 

 

[Glenn Atkins]

It's supposed to be that way.

[Carrau]

https://thepelikansperch.com/2020/03/08/pelikan-m800-tortoiseshell-brown/

 

Some additional comments and views of the pattern from The Pelikan’s Perch.

[poti67]

Thanks to all of you. The pictures are nice and the link to the Pelikan’s perch is very informative. I really appreciate. 
To illustrate better my concern I’m adding a picture of two sides of my pen. One is more or less similar to the pattern that I see on most pictures and the other one is much darker with thiner lines:

[sansenri]

I actually like this!
The irregular stripes, including the different colours of the stripes, make older striped Pelikans more attractive.

You can find the irregularities also in the older green binde, although less pronounced.

[poti67]

Don’t get me wrong I like it. A lot! I’m just a bit surprised to find these « clusters »of grouped thin lines. I don’t see them on most videos that I found on youtube and I was wondering if they were common or not. 

[GardenWeasel]

Great looking pens too!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Yours is not the 'only' one with 'off lines', it has been commented on before. In one the OP ended up the slightly wilder look, rather than pure same structure.

The pen looks fine to me....after all it is a tortoise. And horseshoe close.

 

I have two early '50-54 light tortoise 400&500, and a '91-96 (they made no tortoise in the last year of the regular flex 400).

Oddly the rolled gold cap of the 500 made the '90's 400 look murky.

 

My grail pen is a '30's tortoise and they are not the least bit 'structured'.

 

You can always sell it for @ what you paid for, and hope your next 800 is a bit more uniform.

Or take advantage of the 3 ways your pens looks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chromantic]

I have an early-90's M250 Levenger Brown Tortoise and a 2014 M400 BT and they do look quite different. The 250 looks a little more vintage-y, sort of understated, while the 400 has a crisper, more well-machined look that also screams "LOOK AT ME!!!"

 

There is a similar difference between my M405 and M400 blue-stripes. The 405's stripes are crisp and shiny, similar to the green, red and grey; the 400's is darker and the stripes seem to lay deeper under the surface and have a slight translucency to them, similar to the tortoise.