Is this a Pelikan deskset

[alfredop]

Some time ago I found this black deskset with a Pelikan pen (at least the nib is marked Pelikan and the barrel is a black striated one similar to the one of a Pelikan 400). The deskset has no brand on it, do you think that is from Pelikan (maybe from the Milan factory)?

 

Alfredo

 

[joss]

That is a nice find! The 400S desk pens are not common and the desk bases are even more scarce. Nice also to see it combined with the iconic Ace of Spades album!

 

The shape of the desk base with the central and longitudinal indention as well as the shape of the sockets all look like a genuine Pelikan desk base. The sockets are normally marked "Pelikan" near the open end of the socket.

Is your base glass or marble? A similar desk base but in transparent glass is shown near the bottom of this page:

https://www.pelikan-collectibles.com/en/Pelikan/Models/Historic-Pens/100N/index.html

 

 

 

[joss]

as an addendum:

I have the single socket version of the base with original paperwork in Italian, indeed suggesting that these desk bases came from the Milano factory.

 

 

 

[alfredop]

Thank you Joss, now that you said me where to look I found Pelikan written on the black socket. The deskset is made in glass.

 

Now I have to found another deskpen to complete the set.

 

Alfredo

[alfredop]

3 minutes ago, joss said:

as an addendum:

I have the single socket version of the base with original paperwork in Italian, indeed suggesting that these desk bases came from the Milano factory.

 

 

 

 

Beautiful, your pen has a thread for the cap, or the cap is snap fit?

 

Alfredo

[Bo Bo Olson]

The double pen holder is Pelikan from @ 1990 + - a poster over in Geek said. The 'gold plated' top of the 4001  Royal Blue inkwell bottle now has the remains of my Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Green shading ink in it.

When after 6 months of looking for my Grail pen a Soennecken 111 or even a 222 herringbone, the money burnt a hole in my pocket.

I got this pen stand, a tortoise 500, a tortoise  '54 transition a 400, a marbled green 381 and a similar marbled green Celebry.

The pen in it is a '93 Green Hunter Toledo and I think an '50's Artus Bilatt(Lamy sub-brand with regular flex nibs).

 

[joss]

2 hours ago, alfredop said:

Beautiful, your pen has a thread for the cap, or the cap is snap fit?

 

Yes, the pen has threads like a standard Pelikan 400. This is unexpected but this is how I received this set. It is impossible to rule out whether it came like this from the factory but the general consensus is that the 400 desk pen did not have barrel threads (like your version).