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catbert
April 2nd, 2018, 04:38 PM
The interview with Jasper Morrison (https://specs.lamy.com/en/specs-vol-1/dem-alltaeglichen-eine-neue-form-geben) in the first issue of Lamy specs contains the following exchange (emphasis mine):

Q: Do you have a favourite in the Lamy range?
A: As a long-term Lamy fan (I got my first Lamy when I was fourteen), I have good memories of some of the early designs. My absolute favourite was probably a transparent fountain pen with a screw fill mechanism in transparent orange, with some other internal parts in grey, I think. It’s extremely technical appearance was beautiful and it uniquely embodied my idea at the time of what a pen should be.


Any idea which earlier Lamy he's talking about?

amk
April 3rd, 2018, 02:27 AM
Sounds like a Lamy 99 demonstrator, but the 99 had a lime green not orange piston. There's one on https://www.penboard.de/shop/hlist/LA/MBVI/0

catbert
April 3rd, 2018, 03:39 AM
Sounds like a Lamy 99 demonstrator, but the 99 had a lime green not orange piston. There's one on https://www.penboard.de/shop/hlist/LA/MBVI/0

Thanks! That's more or less what I imagined from the description, though the gold trim undercuts the 'extremely technical appearance' for me. Perhaps a silver trim/orange piston variant existed?

Someone over on FPN suggested a Lamy Vista with a Z24 converter, which is also plausible if a little disappointing. (I forget that the Safari/Vista counts as an old design now.)

catbert
April 3rd, 2018, 07:45 PM
Mystery solved, I think. Someone over on FPN suggested a Lamy 68 demonstrator (http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/76675-does-a-lamy-2000-demonstrator-exist/page-2).

amk
April 4th, 2018, 02:57 AM
Wow! that's a marvellous pen! I can see how Jasper Morrison would have fallen in love with it.

catbert
April 4th, 2018, 04:38 AM
Wow! that's a marvellous pen! I can see how Jasper Morrison would have fallen in love with it.

Yup, completely understandable. :)

FredRydr
April 4th, 2018, 03:07 PM
Demonstrators look cool. Until someone puts ink in them.

Inky Poops
August 27th, 2018, 05:39 AM
Demonstrators look cool. Until someone puts ink in them.

Then they look cooler...:laser:

SIR
August 29th, 2018, 03:09 PM
Jasper Morrison?

catbert
August 29th, 2018, 03:52 PM
Jasper Morrison?

Designer — of the Lamy Aion in this context.

dfo
August 29th, 2018, 08:06 PM
I wish this pen would remain hidden and forgotten. It is my grail pen...

christof
September 3rd, 2018, 03:23 AM
Sounds like a Lamy 99 demonstrator, but the 99 had a lime green not orange piston. There's one on https://www.penboard.de/shop/hlist/LA/MBVI/0

Here's a picture of mine:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/834/41605580562_6262d1c922_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/26oxtzU)Lamy 99 Demonstrator (https://flic.kr/p/26oxtzU) by C.M.Z (https://www.flickr.com/photos/30169694@N08/), auf Flickr


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