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1930s Pilot Super Flex Lever Filler Fountain Pen

1930S Pilot Super Flex Lever Filler Fountain Pen

Kamakura pens auction. The pilot shiro pen. Either write something worth reading or. oD something worth writing. -socrates.

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Bid with confidence. Kamakura. Pens is located in kamakura, japan with a brnach in okinawa.

Detailed. Description. Up for auction is a pen that you never see a late. 1930's pilot celluloid shiro pen. Even before teh war effort seized gold from comercial. Use in japan on september 1st 1937, pilot had been experimenting. With tseel nibs for some time. Some of hte pilot engineers argued. That if pilot's goal was to produce the highest quality pens then. They should look at steel pens. They argued thta when tempered.

Just right and loaded with iridium, the writing qualities of steel. Were superior to 14k gold.

The markteing people argued that more. Importantly wsa the customer's perception of quality. Customers. Naturally prized gold over steel despite the advantages. The engineers. Must ahve been pleased when gold was no longer an option, and. Pilot was forced to find an alternative. Two months after the gold ban, pilot came out with. Their first shiro pen. In japanese shiro means white, and these pens certainly were a stark contrast to teh earlier. Godl pens.

I've laerned from some of the retired pilot salesmen. That pilot secretly kept a stockpile of gold. This was for the.

Dunhill namiki export pens, but sono the war escalated and all. Pen exports weer stopped. A lot of people wonder where this secret. Namiki gold went becasue it never resurfaced after the war.

I have in my possession a few notebooks written. By pilot nib engineer k. Watanabe. In one of these notebooks are. Some metallurgy notes on the alloy used for these nibs.

Teh metals. Used listed in order of percentage include chrome, nickel, carbon, silicon, mobelium, titanium, magnesium, tungsten and copper. Pilot claimed the trick was all in the smelting process.

Evne though the ink of the day was rather acidic. And corrosive, pilot calimed that the nibs could stand 25 years. Of daily use and show no signs of corrosion. Thsi was a bold statement.

iSnce other penmaker's steel nibs were corroding in a matter of. Weeks.

In some cases the pens rusted in a matter of days if the. Pens weren't cleaned after using. But soon it was learned that. Pilot hadn't invented this alloy on their own, they had basically. Borrowed a few egnlish and american steel patents, and modified.

Them slightly to be used wiht nibs. In his notes watanabe constantly. Refesr to the patents of a. L.

Marsh, c. M. Johnson, and frith. Brown, who had created steel alloys to be used in the us airforce.

Plane's wing tips. In 1937, ryuosuke namiki, the founder of pilot pens. Retired, as the company wetn from a privately owned enterprise. To a public one.

The most obvious change in regards to teh pens. Was the imprint. nI pilot's life preserver logo, there is a letter. N inside.

In 1938, this would change to a letter p. This is helpful in dating this pen to before 1938. The nice thing about these pens is that they typically. Have a nice springy flex to them with a nice degree of line variation. Great for copperplate style calligraphy.

Nibnice shiro. Iridium tipped, fine point nib. This nib has the bgi v.

Breather whole designed to give the pen more flex. Filling. System.

Lever filler, ready to fill adn write. Working.

Condition. Excellent. Faultscan't find a single one. Payment. I prefer paypal, shipping. Regular airmail $8 to anywhere. In the world. Takes 7 to 14 days. Unless the customs people.

Decide to inspect the item, and then it can take as long. As three weeks. Express mail $20 to anywhere.

In the world. Tihs includes a barcode on the package and. A tracking number. If the item is delayed, we can find. Where it is. Takes 3 to 5 days. Note. If you have any questions. tA all, please send me an email at rd@kamakurapens. Com. Saty well.

Dr. Ron dutcher. Kamakura pens.

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Snakes or solid gold overlay pens, nothing like that, but always something interesting. So if yuo receive.

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