Comparison between Pelikan 140 (c. 1960) and Pelikan M400 (c. 2010), both green-striped.
The color of the 140 has faded from age and sun exposure, but you can see that near the section, there is about a centimeter of stripe that would usually be under the cap and wouldn't be exposed to direct sunlight. So the color there is actually much closer to the modern M400.
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What I think this means is that when the 140 was new it would have looked much like the M400 does now, and the way that Pelikan made this material hadn't changed for over 60 years until the change to opaque material a few years ago. #Vintage#FountainPens
@paradoxmo Has the old Pelikan already a see-through body?
Because this is the biggest of the current Pelikan pens (I have no idea how much ink is left in my M800).
@lepapierblanc yes, the old Pelikan has a translucent barrel.
Edit: OK I understand, you meant that no ink level indication is the biggest issue with the current opaque barrel Pelikans, right? I agree. And the weird thing is that there is a way to solve it, they used it on the opaque black Pelikans… an ink window. But they didn’t add that when they switched to opaque barrels on the striped pens.
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