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April 14th, 2016, 12:13 PM
I'm selling my sweet Pelikan 140 fountain pen. It has a couple flaws so I'm listing these so you know exactly what you'll get.
The barrel of the pen is nearly flawless. The piston works and holds ink the way it should.
The cap has two, barely visible hairline cracks near the base. This is quite common and doesn't affect function at all; the cap consists of a metal inner cap that covers half the inside of the cap and the outer part of the cap is plastic. Due to the plastic shrinking and the metal not shrinking, small cracks develop. The clip has lost most of its plating. The cap band is intact and reads '+PELIKAN 140 - GERMANY'
The nib is a 14k gold nib, marked 'EF' but writes more like a medium stub nib. Please see writing sample. The nib does NOT have much tipping left, we're talking 0.01 mm; you'll still be writing with the iridium tipping and even this minimal amount of tipping should last a long time, but the nib, albeit acceptably smooth at the angle I write with (55 degrees), has some tooth or rather scratchiness (especially at higher/lower angles) and due to the rather miniscule amount of tipping left, you really can't smoothen the scratchiness out.
The nib is, as most Pelikan 140 nibs are, semi-flexible - however, due to the roughness of the tipping you can't flex the nib without ripping the paper apart.
After all this, I still claim this is a nice pen. It's a small, handy piston-filled pen that posts well and becomes almost as long as a posted Pelikan 400/M400. The barrel is nearly flawless and the cap is very good too. The nib isn't that good and that's the main reason why the price is as it is. You can change the nib to a nib of your liking if the current one doesn't suit you; the pen accepts Pelikan 140/150/200/250/400 nib units.
Asking price is $47 with standard priority untracked shipping. I have described this pen to the best of my ability and exposed ALL of its flaws. I will therefore not take any returns!
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/12885788_589722791182769_4191142792585256720_o.jpg
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/1934581_589722857849429_8373168987016132180_n.jpg? oh=e3fa1d89246004fe4e4a1c838d6c4dc7&oe=57B0455C
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xla1/t31.0-8/12901190_589722874516094_8536673779200220908_o.jpg
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/12885979_589722891182759_5650583987153596119_o.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpnyT39B6g
The barrel of the pen is nearly flawless. The piston works and holds ink the way it should.
The cap has two, barely visible hairline cracks near the base. This is quite common and doesn't affect function at all; the cap consists of a metal inner cap that covers half the inside of the cap and the outer part of the cap is plastic. Due to the plastic shrinking and the metal not shrinking, small cracks develop. The clip has lost most of its plating. The cap band is intact and reads '+PELIKAN 140 - GERMANY'
The nib is a 14k gold nib, marked 'EF' but writes more like a medium stub nib. Please see writing sample. The nib does NOT have much tipping left, we're talking 0.01 mm; you'll still be writing with the iridium tipping and even this minimal amount of tipping should last a long time, but the nib, albeit acceptably smooth at the angle I write with (55 degrees), has some tooth or rather scratchiness (especially at higher/lower angles) and due to the rather miniscule amount of tipping left, you really can't smoothen the scratchiness out.
The nib is, as most Pelikan 140 nibs are, semi-flexible - however, due to the roughness of the tipping you can't flex the nib without ripping the paper apart.
After all this, I still claim this is a nice pen. It's a small, handy piston-filled pen that posts well and becomes almost as long as a posted Pelikan 400/M400. The barrel is nearly flawless and the cap is very good too. The nib isn't that good and that's the main reason why the price is as it is. You can change the nib to a nib of your liking if the current one doesn't suit you; the pen accepts Pelikan 140/150/200/250/400 nib units.
Asking price is $47 with standard priority untracked shipping. I have described this pen to the best of my ability and exposed ALL of its flaws. I will therefore not take any returns!
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/12885788_589722791182769_4191142792585256720_o.jpg
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/1934581_589722857849429_8373168987016132180_n.jpg? oh=e3fa1d89246004fe4e4a1c838d6c4dc7&oe=57B0455C
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xla1/t31.0-8/12901190_589722874516094_8536673779200220908_o.jpg
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/12885979_589722891182759_5650583987153596119_o.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpnyT39B6g