piscov
August 29th, 2014, 01:33 PM
Hello all,
Pelikan 100N fluted cap ring is my favourite 100N cap variation. Both clip and cap rings are in my view very elegant.
Very recently I was able to find and buy the variation I was missing in my collection, the earlier one with wider and deeper vertical channels and found on all ebonite caps with the several birds in the nest logo (1937/38)
As far as I know Pelikan used at least 3 variations of the fluted rings along the production years ( 1937 to 1954). One of the variation is, to my best knowledge, very scarce.
The difference between them are the spacing and depth of the "vertical channels"
Here are pictures I took from pens in my collection that show the variations:
From the lowest to the top:
1) Deeper and wider "vertical channels" - Earlier 1937/38 Fluted cap ring, found on all ebonite (Hard rubber) cap. Top cap has the early logo with the several birds in the nest ( I´ve only seen 3 of these caps being one of them mine)
2) Less deep and less wide " vertical channels. 1939 to ??? - found on all ebonite cap with the 2 birds.
3) Narrower and shallow " vertical channels" - ??? to 1954 - Celluloid cap ( this variation is the ordinary one)
Note: I am not sure about the the dates marked with "???" and would appreciate more information to complete this post. If there are more variations please let me know. These are the ones I know about at the moment.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31730936/Material%20posto%20nos%20foruns/FPB/IMG_0060.JPG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31730936/Material%20posto%20nos%20foruns/FPB/IMG_0061.JPG
Pelikan 100N fluted cap ring is my favourite 100N cap variation. Both clip and cap rings are in my view very elegant.
Very recently I was able to find and buy the variation I was missing in my collection, the earlier one with wider and deeper vertical channels and found on all ebonite caps with the several birds in the nest logo (1937/38)
As far as I know Pelikan used at least 3 variations of the fluted rings along the production years ( 1937 to 1954). One of the variation is, to my best knowledge, very scarce.
The difference between them are the spacing and depth of the "vertical channels"
Here are pictures I took from pens in my collection that show the variations:
From the lowest to the top:
1) Deeper and wider "vertical channels" - Earlier 1937/38 Fluted cap ring, found on all ebonite (Hard rubber) cap. Top cap has the early logo with the several birds in the nest ( I´ve only seen 3 of these caps being one of them mine)
2) Less deep and less wide " vertical channels. 1939 to ??? - found on all ebonite cap with the 2 birds.
3) Narrower and shallow " vertical channels" - ??? to 1954 - Celluloid cap ( this variation is the ordinary one)
Note: I am not sure about the the dates marked with "???" and would appreciate more information to complete this post. If there are more variations please let me know. These are the ones I know about at the moment.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31730936/Material%20posto%20nos%20foruns/FPB/IMG_0060.JPG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31730936/Material%20posto%20nos%20foruns/FPB/IMG_0061.JPG