Second generation

Pelikan 100N (ca.1939)

Green indicates the changes from Pelikan 100N (ca.1938).

Stating from 1938, Günter Wagner gradually replaced ebonite with celluloid (or cellulose acetate). The company moved toward newer material(s), first for cap tube, then for cap top (Fig.4), and finally for filler mechanism (Pelikan History). By 1939, ebonite was gone from Pelikan pens, except for foreign production (e.g. Milan)⁽¹⁾. Probably, this pen is a transitional model made in this period. Cap top and cap tube are made of celluloid (Fig.4 right), and cap top and grip top edge are flat. The filler mechanism is ebonite. Please refer to Pelikan 100N (ca.1938) for other specification. If gold nib is original for the pen, this pen may be for the export market. There is no nib size specification on the pen.

As of 1939, precious metal model lineups were only 100N variants. By the end of March 1939, all precious metal models for the domestic market were discontinued (Green Book). From then on, precious metal model were exclusively destined for the export market ("Pelican” catalog 1939)⁽²⁾.

As from October 11, 1939, model 100N was was fitted with chromium/nickel (CN) nibs for the domestic market⁽³⁾ , as the use of palladium nibs was forbidden by the government (Green Book).

Note;⁽¹⁾ Pelikan Hannover sold its ebonite machinery to Pelikan Milan, Italy in 1939 (click).

⁽²⁾ All fountain pens in the catalog should be fitted with gold nibs, as IBIS130 in it had gold nib.

⁽³⁾ It seems that pens were were still fitted with gold nibs for the export market.