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April 18th, 2016, 02:09 AM
So... it turns out that the Maxima is actually not the largest of the European Duofolds
:noidea:
Generally the Maxima is larger than the Senior (although they are the same girth, the Maxima is longer and has a larger nib, which is why a Maxima cap will fit on a Senior but not vice versa) and larger than the Standard aerometric and the AF and NS button filler Duofolds which came before the squeezies.
& AF fillers came in only one standard size.
OR did they ..... ?
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That is a UK Aerometric Maxima in Green. A UK Aerometric Senior in Blue and the black pen is an AF Denmark Duofold that is fatter than than the Maxima. Look at how much larger the cap is. The cap from the AF swallows the Maxima section up. It is shorter (Maxima is actually quite a long pen).... but look at the size.
How large is it? It is OS Balance/M80x/PFM/146 size.
Look at the second picture with a garden variety 90s MB 146.
The cap on the 146 and the (i'll call it for lack of a name) OS AF filler are almost interchangeable.
I never heard of this pen. Totally a mystery to me, but here it sits on my table. There was, in fact, an Oversized AF filler, Denmark only, as far as I can tell.
Who knew?
More odd... googling shows that this mystery OS pen usually did not have this nib on it.
:noidea:
Generally the Maxima is larger than the Senior (although they are the same girth, the Maxima is longer and has a larger nib, which is why a Maxima cap will fit on a Senior but not vice versa) and larger than the Standard aerometric and the AF and NS button filler Duofolds which came before the squeezies.
& AF fillers came in only one standard size.
OR did they ..... ?
2435424355
That is a UK Aerometric Maxima in Green. A UK Aerometric Senior in Blue and the black pen is an AF Denmark Duofold that is fatter than than the Maxima. Look at how much larger the cap is. The cap from the AF swallows the Maxima section up. It is shorter (Maxima is actually quite a long pen).... but look at the size.
How large is it? It is OS Balance/M80x/PFM/146 size.
Look at the second picture with a garden variety 90s MB 146.
The cap on the 146 and the (i'll call it for lack of a name) OS AF filler are almost interchangeable.
I never heard of this pen. Totally a mystery to me, but here it sits on my table. There was, in fact, an Oversized AF filler, Denmark only, as far as I can tell.
Who knew?
More odd... googling shows that this mystery OS pen usually did not have this nib on it.