hi!

[thisonelikescoffee]

my wife and i are decluttering and i stumbled upon my old calligraphy tools. as i was sifting through the nibs and inks, i found this old pen, which i hadn't seen before.
i'm guessing it belonged to my paternal grandfather, whom i never had the chance to meet. i'm curious to find out a bit more about this pen. i've read whatever history there is to be seen on this forum, but i'd like to know whether it's worth trying to get this thing working again, or should i just keep it as a memento.

since i don't really have anything else from my grandfather, my curiosity was piqued. here's what i found out:

the pen is a matador. it weighs 23 grams and is about 13 cm long. the cap is gold-colored the logo at the tip and on the clip, otherwise the only text visible states "rolled gold", the cap doesn't screw on, but rather clicks on.
the nib is a castell 14K 585 and the body of the pen is striped black and reflective silver.

here's a few photos, i tried searching on google for this pen, but found nothing. any help would be appreciated. sorry for the lousy quality.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3johaf4kn335lw/pen.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cnub120xnu0e0wn/nib.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bkvq3ihf1218shg/cap.jpg?dl=0

i posted this here: http://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread....950#post122950

any help would be appreciated.

thanks!

[Morgaine]

Hello and welcome, I don't know anything about Matador but there should be some nice fpgeeks who do

[Hawk]

Welcome.

[Denizzz]

Welcome!!!!

[TerraNoir]

[Potter]

[RuiFromUK]

Hi and welcome. Have fun here.

Jeph has some Matador pens but I haven't seen him here in the forum for few days.

[pica pica]

Hi!

Hi and welcome. Have fun here.

Jeph has some Matador pens but I haven't seen him here in the forum for few days.

Also, one of the fountainpennetwork.com users, Kaweco, seems to be collecting Matadors. In one of his posts he mentioned that he had 14 (2013), so another good person to turn to for information.

The Castell 14K nib obviously doesn't belong to this pen, but maybe it says how much your grandfather cherished the pen to keep it going by fitting it with another good nib.

[Jeph]

I'll post on the pen thread about your pen.
BTW that is a Matador in my avatar.

[chojo]

[inlovewithjournals]

[Frank]

[VertOlive]

Welcome, I see some helpful geeks have appeared to tell you about you grandfather's pen.

[Wahl]

[caribbean_skye]

welcome welcome

[Bisquitlips]

I have only limited knowledge of Matadors, but have heard they did put out some really nice pens.

If you have a jewelry polishing cloth, take a little elbow grease and polish that pen up a little. You will be amazed and what is under the years of "patina"! Just remember to take a soft dry cloth after using the "treated" jewelry cloth to remove any residuals. You don't have to wash it. Just a quick going over after the jewelry cloth will do.

The nib looks good (not original I don't believe), but is should work fine meaning that you should not have to have much if any work done on it (tines straighten and so forth). Typically you can have a FP services for about 35 - 55 dollars. As long as there are no cracks or other major structural damages I would certainly consider getting her up a going again. Especially as it was your grandfathers! To me, would be amazing to write with the same pen my grandfather did.

Good luck and keep us posted!

BTW, I live in the KCMO area and there is a superb lady I know named Sherrell Tyree in our area who has a great reputation for restoring fountain pens. She has done some work for me over the years and her work is second to none and very affordable. Here is her website if you are interested. http://www.ink-pen.com.

Cheers!

[Bisquitlips]

[ilangai]

[Mags]

Welcome to the forum.