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Unlike American and most other pen makers, German pen manufacturers (Mont blanc pens) often seem to have branched out to service specialized markets. Montblanc pens made special fountain pens with blades rather than nibs and designed to use India ink for architects and engineers during the 1920s and 1930s. Montblanc also offered stylographic style pens for technical writing during much of its history.
Since Pelikan was founded as a maker of artist colors and inks, it is certainly not surprising that they would offer special products for graphic artists, architects and/or engineers. In the 1930s, Pelikan began to offer the Graphos pen in a small set with one holder and only six interchangeable nibs. By 1957, there were several size sets available, including one with forty different nibs.
In the 1970s, perhaps to compete with Montblanc pens, Mont blanc pens, Kohinoor and/or Mars-Stadtler. Pelikan offered the Technos suite of calibrated (for line width) stylographic pens. This seems to have been a very short lived product but one which offered some advantages over its competition since the Pelikan suite used cartridges rather than being limited to bottled ink and offered a wider range of stylo tips.
Finally, Pelikan made (and marked) this unusual stylus in which the ‘ball’ is turned at right angles to the main axis. Neither my sources nor I have figured out the name and the use of this instrument. If you know, please e-mail me.
- Special thanks to Martin Lehmann for researching his Pelikan catalogs and literature, and for helping me to date the items illustrating this article.
Written by L. Michael Fultz, Editorial Director, Penbid.com ©2000 by Penbid.com, Inc.
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