OS075 Osmiroid 75. (Soft Fine Rolatip)

OS075 Osmiroid 75. (Soft Fine Rolatip)

Date: c1960s

Size: Capped - 135mm; posted - 156mm.

This rather uncommon pen is still in goodcondition.  It has a good glossy appearance, but it does have some minor surface wear over the entire pen.  It is a slim pen, made, I would guess, in the 1960s.  The cap has slanted top with a chrome plated top button that has "75" impressed in its upper surface.  This holds on the chrome plated pocket clip.  This has a flat stem with "Osmiroid" imprinted at the shoulder.  It has a narrow cap band, made of stainless steel.  This gives it a slightly different look to the pocket clip, but it is as it should be.  The barrel bears a small imprint that is just about still complete, though it is rather shallow.  This pen is very unusual in that it is a piston filled pen.  You twist the barrel end blind cap to operate the filling mechanism.  At the forward end of the barrel is a nice clear "window" through which you can see the ink level in the pen.  The nib is gold plated steel iSoft Fine Rolatip.  Unusually, all its gold plating is still intact.  As these nibs just screw in and out, it makes these pens very versatile as they can accept not only Osmiroid nibs, but some Burnham nibs, and nearly all the Esterbrook nibs too.  

I have fully serviced this pen. The nib is reasonably soft and will provide a tiny bit of line width variation as you write from an extra-fine to a fine with no more than normal writing pressure.