Vintage Omas Extra 750 pen

[Delis Vaslis]

Dear netters,

I am a newcomer in the forum and also in the wonderful hobby of fountain pen collection, but a rather passionate one.

I recently came across a second hand Omas Extra fountain pen, which fascinates and intrigues me. It has an 18K gold nib, engraved with the letters ‘750’.

It is a piston filler.

Its material is opaque black and the cap ring presents an ancient Greek Meander engraving.

It is very lightweight (total weight: 12,2 gr) and rather small (uncapped 11,7 cm long, capped 12,7 cm long, ~7 mm wide at the thinnest part of the section, ~9 mm at the upper thickest part of the section).

Please see the attached image.

When I received it I noticed a very subtle tine misalignment which was easily solved. After a gentle nib smoothing with a K12000 micromesh, the pen writes like a dream. Really smooth and inspiring. I am trying to trace back any information regarding this pen’s origin/history, production year, exact materials and any other information which I as a pen aficionado would very much appreciate. Not much to be found by Googling for this particular (small) model.  I would extremely appreciate any help on your behalf, which could only deepen my bonding with this wonderful writing instrument.

Thank you in advance.

Vasilis

Edited October 5, 2023 by Delis Vaslis

[ruby.monkey]

Don't pay too much attention to the '750' on the nib - that's the fineness of the gold used (18ct), not a model identifier.

 

Judging by the size, this discussion may be of interest to you.

[Mr.Rene]

That ruby.monkey said 750 is 18 Karat gold ..or if you prefer 75% of solid gold. Regards.

[ZeroDukE]

Congratulations and welcome.  The Omas is a superb fountain pen, I love all of them.  Although not all dodecahedral Omas are Paragon, you will find more information by searching this way as well.  Enjoy!