Lexaf
July 22nd, 2017, 10:08 AM
Amongst the numerous green, gray and brown marbled vintage celluloid pens, the red and the blue celluloids with a well preserved color are pretty rare.
Here is a beautifully colored, striped blue one.
The imprint on the barrel is 'Typ Super' , which is a typical fantasy OEM bookshop brand. The design and material indicate however this pen was made by the 'UNION VULPEN FABRIEK' in The Hague, Netherlands. UNION was one of the more important independent fountain pen manufacturers in The Netherlands from the mid 1920's until 1957, when they stopped production, due to the ballpoint taking over the market.
Contrary to a lot of (smaller) Dutch pen manufacturers from that time, UNION designed and produced all their pens and parts 'in house'. Many other Dutch brands were just assembling pens (sometimes of own design) from prefabricated German parts, often coming from the large Heidelberg pen industry.
The pen I am offering here is completely restored by me. It writes soft & smooth with a remarkably flexable F to BB medium wet line. (see the writing sample in the pictures)
Specifications:
Brand: TYP SUPER (almost certainly made by UNION, The Netherlands)
Material: Barrel and cap are made of blue and black vertically striped celluloid.
Section, feeder, cap jewel and blind end cap are made of black ebonite/hard rubber.
Clip and cap band are made of gold plated brass, with some very light plating los due to age.
Nib: 14K gold. F to BB flex.
Filling system: Button filler with a new silicone ink sac.
Length capped: 120mm
Posted: 150mm
Without cap: 112mm
Width over barrel: 10,7mm
Over cap:12,4mm
Asking US$ 55,-- for this beautiful old pen.
Shipping is us $ 10,-- for unregistered no tracking standard priority lettermail, worldwide, or us$ 20, for registered mail, incl. track&trace
(Sorry, shipping charges have gone up like crazy!)
When interested, please click HERE (lexvangalen@gmail.com), to send me an e-mail.
Payment by PAYPAL only.
Please see the pictures, thanks for viewing.
Here is a beautifully colored, striped blue one.
The imprint on the barrel is 'Typ Super' , which is a typical fantasy OEM bookshop brand. The design and material indicate however this pen was made by the 'UNION VULPEN FABRIEK' in The Hague, Netherlands. UNION was one of the more important independent fountain pen manufacturers in The Netherlands from the mid 1920's until 1957, when they stopped production, due to the ballpoint taking over the market.
Contrary to a lot of (smaller) Dutch pen manufacturers from that time, UNION designed and produced all their pens and parts 'in house'. Many other Dutch brands were just assembling pens (sometimes of own design) from prefabricated German parts, often coming from the large Heidelberg pen industry.
The pen I am offering here is completely restored by me. It writes soft & smooth with a remarkably flexable F to BB medium wet line. (see the writing sample in the pictures)
Specifications:
Brand: TYP SUPER (almost certainly made by UNION, The Netherlands)
Material: Barrel and cap are made of blue and black vertically striped celluloid.
Section, feeder, cap jewel and blind end cap are made of black ebonite/hard rubber.
Clip and cap band are made of gold plated brass, with some very light plating los due to age.
Nib: 14K gold. F to BB flex.
Filling system: Button filler with a new silicone ink sac.
Length capped: 120mm
Posted: 150mm
Without cap: 112mm
Width over barrel: 10,7mm
Over cap:12,4mm
Asking US$ 55,-- for this beautiful old pen.
Shipping is us $ 10,-- for unregistered no tracking standard priority lettermail, worldwide, or us$ 20, for registered mail, incl. track&trace
(Sorry, shipping charges have gone up like crazy!)
When interested, please click HERE (lexvangalen@gmail.com), to send me an e-mail.
Payment by PAYPAL only.
Please see the pictures, thanks for viewing.