The PENguin Blog

Before the M1000 there was another, more legendary, oversize Pelikan, the pen we call the Magnum. Shrouded in the mists of legend for many years we knew little of these pens, which usually showed up in tortoise with the Emegê imprint of Monteiro Gimarãis the influential Portugese importer of Pelikan. We assumed they were a variant of the 100N. Today we know, due to the discovery of shipping documents, that they were transitional, perhaps prototypes of a new pen that was sold in Portugal in 1935. There are a few of them around. It would be a mistaske to call them rare (whatever that means). But I have two. And I will make no more extravagant claims about them being perhaps the last that will surface. These pens are fully restored and ready to be put into service. Pen A This very early pen has a dark binde and the brass shim that Pelikan used on the earliest 100 and 100N models to strengthen the barrel threads at the filler end. The pen shows no more than expected ...

Notwithstanding one of the worst hotel experiences I have ever had, the LA Pen Show was very good to The Penguin. And potentially to all of you. We now have a fine stock of ever-popular Pelikan 400s and 400NNs in the most common colors, though if you want a green stripe 400, move now. There are only two remaining. And, if you wish to take your Pelikan collection to a new level, we have a very fine gray 400/450 set and we have a pair of tortoise 400Ns  The harvest of M800s was extraordinary. We can now offer first year 14 karat nib M800s in green stripe and black. You know about the 14 karat nibs and how impossible they are to come by these days, we have them, either loose or in pens. We also have a green transparent M800 and a 2011 M800 in tortoise. Get those while you can. Of greatest interest, perhaps, is a jade M800 prototype. If anything is of interest, do be in touch rickpropas@comcast.net And finally, I can't help but show off what Rick got, a bunch of re...