I don't subscribe to the view that the most expensive pen is the best one – or at least not always. The pen I'm using to write this is a Geha. As it was a gift it has exceptional sentimental value but I couldn't say what price would be put on it – no more than £45 at a guess.
It's a school pen, I suppose. The nib was gold plated but is no longer. The plating has rubbed off over the years. It's quite a small pen at 12.4 cm but it suits my hand quite well, even unposted. The nib is fine and precise, just what I like.
Gehas have a little trick that no other pen has, so far as I'm aware. There is a little button on the underside of the nib which gives access to an "emergency supply" of ink – enough to write another couple of pages. I read somewhere that there was competition for the school student market in Germany and this little gimmick of the Geha gave them the edge over Pelikan for a time. However when the fountain pen market began to fail, Geha was taken over by Pelikan. I think my Geha predates that takeover.
Many post-war German piston fillers can be had for very little and often they are exceptionally good pens, even the unknown ones or ones with no name. There are more expensive gold nib Gehas but even they are quite cheap compared with Pelikans, for example.
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