Please help me identify this pen

[Philip1209]

I have a fun story behind this pen: I am on speech team and always use fountain pens to prep. One of our coaches noticed and said that she was given a fountain pen by her brother, but that she never uses it. To make a long story short, she generously gave me the pen because she said that I could appreciate it.

 

The pen's maker is "Zeppelin." I have not heard of it before, but the pen's body seems to be sterling silver.

Here are a couple pictures: (Sorry, I'm sitting in a hotel and they were taken with my phone)

http://dx.newssources.googlepages.com/photo-1.jpg

http://dx.newssources.googlepages.com/photo.jpg

 

Please provide further information on this pen, if you can. I haven't been able to find any information on the maker. The pen is labelled as being made in Germany, though.

Thank you!

[Fountainbass]

I don't have any information, but I'd love a "Zeppelin" pen...I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan! Nice looking pen you've got there.

[veri]

I have the rollerball version of that very pen. I can't believe I just found another post about a Zeppelin... interesting.

 

I don't recall much that would be worthwhile to you, though. If memory serves, it was one of a few pen-related Christmas gifts to me many, many years ago. I believe it was ordered from Colorado Pen Company then; maybe you could get further information from a particularly helpful rep there, though I know they aren't nearly the same company they were once upon a time.

[Philip1209]

I don't have any information, but I'd love a "Zeppelin" pen...I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan! Nice looking pen you've got there.

I am fairly sure it is named after the Zeppelin blimp, but I guess you can interpret the name however you wish.

 

 

I have the rollerball version of that very pen. I can't believe I just found another post about a Zeppelin... interesting.

 

I don't recall much that would be worthwhile to you, though. If memory serves, it was one of a few pen-related Christmas gifts to me many, many years ago. I believe it was ordered from Colorado Pen Company then; maybe you could get further information from a particularly helpful rep there, though I know they aren't nearly the same company they were once upon a time.

Thanks for the input. I think it may have been a sub-brand of a pen catalogue. Does anyone else have any knowledge of the pen?

[publius]

I am fairly sure it is named after the Zeppelin blimp, but I guess you can interpret the name however you wish.

 

Ah, but Zeppelin never built blimps — the old Luftschiffbau built rigid airships, the new Luftschifftechnik builds semi-rigids, & the various Zeppelin companies over the years have built everything from heavy bombing aeroplanes to the nosecones for US ballistic missiles to Caterpiller tractors (as European licensee) to aluminum pots & pans during the difficult period after Versailles when they were forbidden from building anything else, but never blimps. Quite a few non-rigid airships were built in Germany, of course, but the only significant activity since the Second World War was carried on by a firm called the Westdeutsche Luftwerbung, quite unaffiliated with the Zeppelin works. :roflmho:

 

That said, I would like to know whether the pen here may not, in fact, be a product of the Zeppelin organization, since they have made such a diversity of things over the years.

[RevAaron]

Looks like a random Chinese pen with a brass or stainless steel barrel and an IPG nib. What is the nib imprint?

[soapytwist]

I don't have any information, but I'd love a "Zeppelin" pen...I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan! Nice looking pen you've got there.

Surely if you're Led Zeppelin fan you'd prefer the matching pencil...?!

[Robert Hughes]

Got any Rolling Stones pens?

[soapytwist]

Got any Rolling Stones pens?

 

I think (Exile on) Main Street Pens stock them... :embarrassed_smile:

[kernando]

Did anybody else remember Zeppelin from catalogs? I got out the only one I saw them in, because I haven't gotten many catalogs, and my only Joon one, from 1998. It says they're silver plate, and no description of nibs beyond F, M, B. You can see that it's steel and make your guess as to where they're from. The fountain pens came with cap choice of silver plate or lacquer in black, blue, or green. They were supposed to be $139 somehow.

 

The description tries to play up that the clip and barrel shapes recall Zeppelin airship shapes. I didn't know that the barrel end looked like that, because all the pictures show it posted.