Help on picking first gold nib Pelikan?

[amk]

Vintage Pelikans are awesome. Not all the nibs are flexy but all are bouncy and good writers. I have quite a few 400s, one 400NN. As Chrissy says piston fillers of any type are not all that easy to repair, but the good news on Pelikans is that they are really robust pens.

One fault that does crop up occasionally is a broken nib collar. Fortunately, that's one of the easiest problems to fix and replacement parts are pretty easy to source.