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Wanted to share some photos of this pen that Gem and Co in Madras made for me. I had wanted a pen with a 14Ct gold nib and Gem made this ED pen for me that looks like a vintage Flattop fitted with a vintage(?) clip and a Sheaffer's Lifetime nib.

 

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii197/hari317/Gem%20Flattop/IMG_2724.jpg

 

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii197/hari317/Gem%20Flattop/IMG_2725.jpg

 

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii197/hari317/Gem%20Flattop/IMG_2729.jpg

 

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii197/hari317/Gem%20Flattop/IMG_2726.jpg

 

Comments welcome.

 

Regards,

Hari

 

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WOW Hari! It's a wonderful pen! Have you started writing with it?

look is so vintage! Clip & nibs are just complementing each other!

Enjoy!

Thanks for sharing.

Abhik.

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Have you started writing with it?

 

Thank you! yes, I have filled it up with Waterman's BB ink. Some traces of which are visible in the nib closeup.

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That's a beauty Hari! Very classical, and I particularly like the soft convex contours and the black parentheses around the lovely ripple material.

 

Did you already have the nib and clip? or did Gem & Co hunt them out for you?

Too many pens, too little time!

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hell of a beauty... oh that pattern... and that nib

 

 

That's a beauty Hari! Very classical, and I particularly like the soft convex contours and the black parentheses around the lovely ripple material.

 

Did you already have the nib and clip? or did Gem & Co hunt them out for you?

Thank you. The credit for this pen goes to Pratap, The clip and the nib were also from him only. He has a huge stockpile, you have to coax him to let go.

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Thank you. The credit for this pen goes to Pratap, The clip and the nib were also from him only. He has a huge stockpile, you have to coax him to let go.

oh thats a news...

will get on to that

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