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I just saw pictures of the new Golden Beryl M200 on Instagram today... what do people think of it? Appelboom says it will be available in November. I think it's pretty, but it seems like it's just a gold trim demonstrator with some sparkles, so not super interesting to me.

 

Here's the link on Appelboom: 

https://appelboom.com/pelikan-classic-m200-golden-beryl-fountain-pen/

 

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A plain, frosted, gold-trimmed m200 might interest me, but I just don't like the sparkly pen bodies that are so popular now. Nor the sparkly inks. A minority view, but it helps me save for pens that really wow me.

 

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I don't regard pens with see-through barrels favourably at the best of times, and the trend of sparkly see-through pens starting with M205 Star Ruby, followed by M205 Moonstone and now M200 Golden Beryl, that is becoming lighter and lighter in colour makes me feel Pelikan is just losing the plot. If Pelikan must do sparkles against a plain colour (as opposed to chatoyant swirls) for its special editions, I'd have preferred that it chose much darker background colours à la Sailor's Morion (for the Lecoule model), Hoshikuzu (for the Shikiori Hisakata model), Shining Blue and Shining Red (for the Profit Casual model), or perhaps a green or ochre that is just as deep and intense.

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33 minutes ago, WLSpec said:

I just saw pictures of the new Golden Beryl M200 on Instagram today... what do people think of it? Appelboom says it will be available in November. I think it's pretty, but it seems like it's just a gold trim demonstrator with some sparkles, so not super interesting to me.

 

 

When I read GB M200, I was "but wait, we already had the Gold marble", then when I saw demonstrator I was picturing a yellow/amber with sparkles, a la the Star Ruby, but, no, not even that. Really undistinguished, imo. Hard pass.

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2 minutes ago, chromantic said:

 

When I read GB M200, I was "but wait, we already had the Gold marble", then when I saw demonstrator I was picturing a yellow/amber with sparkles, a la the Star Ruby, but, no, not even that. Really undistinguished, imo. Hard pass.

Yeah, I have to agree. Based on the pictures, it just looks empty, uninspired. Clear with some sparkles. 

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6 hours ago, chromantic said:

 

When I read GB M200, I was "but wait, we already had the Gold marble", then when I saw demonstrator I was picturing a yellow/amber with sparkles, a la the Star Ruby, but, no, not even that. Really undistinguished, imo. Hard pass.


I would classify my thinking also along these lines. I’ll look for the next model for inspiration.

 

The gold marble is in my view a gorgeous pen, and my particular example of it has a nib with above average springiness, which makes it even more fun to use. I had the fantasy that one day Pelikan would produce a silver/grey marbled version along the same lines as the gold marbled, but it it seems doomed to remain a fantasy.

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41 minutes ago, N1003U said:

I had the fantasy that one day Pelikan would produce a silver/grey marbled version along the same lines as the gold marbled, but it it seems doomed to remain a fantasy.

 

I don't really believe Pelikan will be going away any time soon. What's the wager that what you described will happen, some time in the next two decades?

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11 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

I don't really believe Pelikan will be going away any time soon. What's the wager that what you described will happen, some time in the next two decades?

That’s true: Pelikan does seem to constantly introduce new models in the M2xx line, and they have been on a bit of a translucent/marbled kick in recent times, and perhaps I will still be at this hobby for another couple of decades, so I suppose there is some reason for optimism. 🙂
 

I’d wager there are a lot of color/style combinations that Pelikan has not yet exhausted, so the odds of seeing a particular model/color/style seem difficult to calculate.

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7 hours ago, chromantic said:

When I read GB M200, I was "but wait, we already had the Gold marble",

 

I ordered a second M200 Gold-Marbled after the Edelstein IOTY 2021 was released, just for that. :)

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2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

I ordered a second M200 Gold-Marbled after the Edelstein IOTY 2021 was released, just for that. :)

 

The Golden Beryl seems to be a good match for the Gold Marbled M200 (as would perhaps a silver version be for Moostone...). I had been using Iroshizuku Ina-ho in the pen (which also seems to be a reasonable match), but I typically only use that ink for highlighting or some contrast, so the pen wasn't getting used as much as I thought it deserved. These days I tend to fill it with a darker brown like Smoky Quartz or even Yama-guri.

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… the pen wasn't getting used as much as I though it deserved. These days I tend to fill it with a darker brown like Smoky Quartz or even Yama-guri.

 

My first M200 Gold-Marbled is ‘permanently’ inked with Platinum Citrus Black.

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My first M200 Gold-Marbled is ‘permanently’ inked with Platinum Citrus Black.

A nice black is always appropriate.

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A nice black is always appropriate.

 

Sure, but Citrus Black the lightest-coloured out of the Platinum iron-gall inks in the Classic Ink product line.

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7 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

My first M200 Gold-Marbled is ‘permanently’ inked with Platinum Citrus Black.

Brilliant combination. I didn't get the Gold Marbled at the time, and rather wish I had now.

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19 hours ago, debraji said:

A plain, frosted, gold-trimmed m200 might interest me, but I just don't like the sparkly pen bodies that are so popular now. Nor the sparkly inks. A minority view, but it helps me save for pens that really wow me.

 

+1

I've skipped all sparkly pens, not my cup of tea, nor are the inks.

Fortunately there are still a few non sparkly M200s I don't have...

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I’m glad I got the Petrol Marbled with a Schimpf IF nib. I really like the pen and the nib.

 

I’ve also skipped the sparkly pens - and I don’t like the white piston assembly in this combination.

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I actually liked the Star Ruby and Moonstone pens more than I expected, but there's something about clear or lighter-coloured transparent Pelikans that I just can't bear. Adding sparkles just makes it worse. Hadn't even registered the white piston assembly, which is even more hostage to an ugly pen in the future. Ack, no.

 

I skipped the ink as well, so it looks like my habit of collecting these has run its course. Funny, I was going to focus on M405s, but then they brought out the white sectioned one and knocked that desire to "complete the set" on the head as well. Oh well.

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12 hours ago, mizgeorge said:

Brilliant combination. I didn't get the Gold Marbled at the time, and rather wish I had now.

 

Thanks! I didn't even like Platinum Citrus Black as an ink, but had ranked it lowest among the (five out of six) Platinum Classic Ink colours I have here†, until I paired it with my M200 Gold-Marbled into which I fitted a 14K gold EF nib, which I took from my M400 Tortoiseshell-White because I didn't like how broadly and wetly it wrote for an EF nib, and thought the beautiful M400 deserved a better (i.e. gold-plated steel M200) nib so that the pen would get more use.

 

Funny how a pen, a nib, and an ink that were all placed in the subjectively ‘second-rate’ basket could somehow just work together brilliantly and redeem them at once.

 

As for the second M200 Gold-Marbled, I was really surprised to see the opportunity to order one new from a retailer‡ in July 2021, after it has noted that the 2019 Special Edition model has not-just-recently become scarce in the market. Even more surprisingly, when the pen finally arrived, was that (to my now vague recollection) there was a sticker on the gift box that indicated it was sourced from a different retailer (of whose name I never heard before) operating in the same region.

 

I still haven't inked it up, though. Nor cracked open my one and only bottle of Edelstein Golden Beryl ink, for that matter.

 

 

† In case you're wondering, I don't have Sepia Black because it looks too close to Khaki Black (which I love best out of the lot); and Platinum Classic Ink isn't exactly a cheap product line any way you cut it.

‡ Characteristically taking, and took, months to fulfil an order.

 

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3 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

I still haven't inked it up, though. Nor cracked open my one and only bottle of Edelstein Golden Beryl ink, for that matter.

 

Do let us know what you think of the Golden Beryl. I am still on the fence with that ink, and I am looking for as many experiences as possible. I am most interested how legible the color remains with the shimmer components. Gold-ish colors I have seen are, on their own, already a bit hard to read on white papers. I wonder if the shimmer makes if worse.

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No, my Amamethyst and Ruby Red are transparent enough for me, and my Ruby Red really didn't sparkle enough.  I don't need a demonstrator, sparkly or not.

 

Though it may look good with it's yellow ink in it...The ink don't do it for me either.

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