My new Sailor Pro Gear Slim Mini

[kmvhayes]

My darling husband took me to the Fountain Pen Hospital and got my birthday present: a blue and green Sailor Pro Gear Slim which I've totally fallen in with...especially the MF nib, which is just luscious. 

 

My question is: does anyone know what the colorway is called? The salesman gave me a box from a different color, but he told me it was a Limited Edition. Not sure if that meant limited to FPH, or generally limited. He also said that the "Mickey Mouse" on the nib indicated it was LE.

 

Anyone have an idea where I can look? I've been searching all day with no joy. (My OCD wants to put the correct name in my Fountain Pen Companion LOL)

 

Thanks,

Kathleen 

[A Smug Dill]

For starters, that would be a Sailor Professional Gear Slim, and not a Professional Gear Slim Mini. If you're limiting your Web searches to (limited editions of) PGSM models, then you probably won't ever find it.

 

Edited to add:

 

1 hour ago, kmvhayes said:

Anyone have an idea where I can look? I've been searching all day with no joy.

Google's image search on your second photo (of the whole pen, showing both cap and barrel in full) found the correct match in no time flat.

[mke]

8 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Google's image search

@kmvhayes Just in case that you don't know what ASmugDill is talking about: https://images.google.com/

That pen is a shop special made by Sailor for the Japanese Stationary shop Tayama Bungu for its 125th anniversary in 2022. A limited edition but the original site doesn't mention how many were produced.

https://tym-st.com/?pid=167972092

Some are still available, apparently.

[kmvhayes]

Thanks to both of you! I didn't know how to use the image search...I'm kicking myself for all the time I've wasted just searching for things verbally.

 

The Fountain Pen Hospital had had a big sale-cum-penshow earlier in the week, which I'm annoyed about missing, because there were a ton of pens on half-price sale. And there was a guy with a big display of Japanese pens, and my little guy was one of the items left over. At any rate, the thing on the nib that the salesman called "Mickey Mouse" is actually "Tayaman", who's apparently the shop's mascot.

 

(I feel bad that the salesman wrote me up as buying a Slim Mini and not a regular Slim, because the Minis are cheaper. I'll call the shop on Monday to make them aware.)

 

All that being said, I'm in love with the wee man, and the MF nib is a treat.

 

Thanks again

Kathleen 

[A Smug Dill]

7 hours ago, kmvhayes said:

I feel bad that the salesman wrote me up as buying a Slim Mini and not a regular Slim, because the Minis are cheaper.

 

For the same edition or colourway? Not usually.