Monday Madness
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 wear. The captop imprint is faint and the imprint on the
sides of the captop is, interestingly, proud rather than recessed. It reads Pelikan Patent Emegê. The clip is
white metal, which seems to be the case with most of these. The nib, too, is
early, a 14 Karat, rather then 585 14 Karat. It’s a medium. This pen is $1,950
Pen
B This pen has a medium colored binde. The pen shows expected wear. If this pen
ever had captops imprints they are fully
worn off without a hint that they ever were there. The clip is white metal,
which seems to be the case with all of these. The nib is a 585 14 Karat. It’s a
very mild OB. This pen is $1,800
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