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Mentmore Regent fountain pen
A recently acquired fountain len with a 14 carat gold nib. Mentmore was originally a British company, now it is Chinese, probably just a trading name for Chinese Duke pens. This pen is a small object of beauty. Built with a brass body, overlaid with a decorative acrylic finish. I had the medium nib adjusted to give a wetter ink flow. It's quite a large pen, 138mm closed and 122 open without the cap posted. It weighs about 58grams, and for me is too large and heavy with the cap posted.
It fits in my hand and writes very easily with the cap unposted, with a good wet flow of ink. I'm currently using Pelikan 4001 blue-black ink in it, which seems very quick drying. Despite being left-handed, I've yet to smudge my writing using this pen.
The paper is thin white card and the text is from a Latin breviary - clearly, I can make no claims to beautiful handwriting.
I've tried to colour-match the 3 images - the one of the whole pen, cap unposted, is most accurate.
Mentmore Regent fountain pen
A recently acquired fountain len with a 14 carat gold nib. Mentmore was originally a British company, now it is Chinese, probably just a trading name for Chinese Duke pens. This pen is a small object of beauty. Built with a brass body, overlaid with a decorative acrylic finish. I had the medium nib adjusted to give a wetter ink flow. It's quite a large pen, 138mm closed and 122 open without the cap posted. It weighs about 58grams, and for me is too large and heavy with the cap posted.
It fits in my hand and writes very easily with the cap unposted, with a good wet flow of ink. I'm currently using Pelikan 4001 blue-black ink in it, which seems very quick drying. Despite being left-handed, I've yet to smudge my writing using this pen.
The paper is thin white card and the text is from a Latin breviary - clearly, I can make no claims to beautiful handwriting.
I've tried to colour-match the 3 images - the one of the whole pen, cap unposted, is most accurate.