pilot birdie

pilot birdie. while it was a common pen, it is now increasing becoming very rare. Once, it was selling at sgd20, and now the highest asking price is USD200! i gotten 2 of them back in year 1992, a red and a black, and one more later around year 2005. recently, i had acquired another 4 NOS meant for keeping.

this pen was japan's answer to parker 25, another short and small pen. i was going to say no other modern pen is smaller and shorter than this, when, just yesterday, my advisor got me a new and selling model which at first glance, i thought no way it can be a FP, for it is half the size of a birdie. stay tuned.

hero 124

jinhao 992

my box of jinhao 992 came in finally, and the first i did was to find out what makes it tick. well, a couple of photos taken, some observation:
1) the nib and feed are somewhat IPG type, so, they should write smooth. but it is at the IPG smooth level. that's good enough. considering daiso's IPG is also very smooth.
2) it's built by parts. the nib and feed unit are one, made proudly by jinhao (see that jinhao's sign on the container).
3) there is potential for an ED, but the end and the front are as parts, so there is potential for leakages too.
4) they made inner caps for the caps, so, the pen should write after leaving it for some time.

anyway this set is going straight into the vault as collection.

Venus brand

said to be an old china brand which no longer existed. anyway these are going into the vault as archives.

lamy 2000 china pens

Pelikan M100 Stormtrooper