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Behold I bring to you good people a recently-acquired 149 14c. Anyone care to make a guess at the nib size? I think ob or obb but I'm not certain at all. 

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Congrats! My guess would be OB but hard to tell from afar with out a writing sample.

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Thanks again, everyone.  As Gyasko has said I was thinking OB because it seems to me (in my limited experience) that M nibs always have some roundness at the tip. 

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I had a 149 OM nib and, as Michael said, it was cut like the tip of the nib posted by the OP (which I also guess is an OB), just distinctly narrower.

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On 4/28/2021 at 9:16 AM, Michael R. said:

OM is cut just like OB but not as wide.

M is round opposed to B which is square.

 

 

Yup. 

 

I think the nib is OB from the looks of the width.

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On my OM, it’s clear it was fashioned from the M tipping, because the back of the tipping is round.   On the front it looks like an OB only not as wide.

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I don't have an OM(well, except maybe a 24 that I'm not sure about, but those sizes really don't correspond to this big pens that well) but that certainly looks like my 149 OB. In particular, the overall size of the tipping relative to the tines looks the same to me.

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