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KBeezie
August 9th, 2015, 01:20 AM
Won this recently in a pentrace (facebook) contest in guessing an italian brand name.

A Filcao Atlantica Standard in what Giovanni​ calls "Pentrace Green". It's a button filler with a latex sac, a Schmidt made medium steel nib (tuned and adjusted by Giovanni before he shipped it off).

The original Filcao company went out of business roughly 3 years ago, and was one of the few pen makers in the Settimo region that had global distribution. Since then Giovanni Abrate purchased the rights to the name, so supposedly there will be some new Filcao models out in the future (hopefully he keeps the option for button fillers and piston fillers in future models, too many revived brands are strictly c/c).

http://i.imgur.com/vjFoEmk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xrAFYnX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cRozBEy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/w7roACh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/adz6kfbh.jpg

KBeezie
August 9th, 2015, 06:39 AM
Ahh, here it is . Pentrace 2004 LE (Giovanni dug it up)

http://www.newpentrace.com/penbase/Data_Returns/full_article91b8.html?id=457

I don't have the LE 2004 (as he said the LE was sold out in a matter of hours), but says the cap band and trim are sterling silver (but I can't find a hallmark anywhere with my 60x loupe).

manoeuver
August 9th, 2015, 08:23 AM
what a lovely pen! (if you ever decide to rehome it please hit me first.)