What are those nibs?

[spycraftexarch]

G’day ladies and gentlemen!

So - my friend was going through her parent’s old stuff, and happened to find couple of mystery nibs (?). I mean, I seen hybrid nibs before – along with a healthy dose of marketing idiocy, but as far as I recall those were steel nibs saddled in gold, not this weird amalgamation! (See pictures!) Also these look a lot older.

Any idea what those weird things came off of? Would be kind of cool to know what to look for!
I fully expect this to be a well studied thing, not a "mystery", but well - more the reason to ask folk in the know, right?

Cheers!

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[aaronp]

This could be either Japanese or Chinese nibs. I could not see the Kanji above clearly but it look to mean Bright Light and 50% Gold in Japanese. It look similar to the nib from Pilot Elabo so it could some custom nib made from that nib.

[Jon Szanto]

Whatever the actual manufacture, they are patterned after the original version of the Sheaffer "Triumph" tubular nib. An excellent source of info would be this Triumph article (http://penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferTriumphNibs.htm) at Jim Mamoulides' PenHero site.

http://penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/Pics/SheafferTriumphNibs01.jpg

[KrazyIvan]

Wing Sung used conical nibs on some of their pens.