Wish you all a Happy New Year 2015 ...
An unscheduled visit to Deccan Pens, Secunderabad branch, to buy some
stationery items, yielded a big surprise on the last day of 2014 … and a new
pen for the new year…
I was visiting Deccan Pens after a long long time and Zubair was very
effusive in his welcome and before I could ask for things I wanted to buy, he
asked me if I had seen their latest model and if Wasimbhai at Abids branch had
shown me their latest creation … I said no and told him that I had visited
their Abids branch a couple of months ago and Wasimbhai hadn’t spoken about a
new model … he then took out this fountain pen from inside the steel cupboard
and showed it to me … it was their very sturdy and very popular Masterpiece
model, and this one was with a steel cap … ‘pure’ stainless steel, Zubair said
… the first thing I noticed was the clip … most of the times, the clips on
Deccan pens are straightforward … I can remember only the clip on Author being
slightly ornamental … the clip on this pen was ever so slightly ornamental at
the top and also curves down ending in a kind of teardrop …
I opened the pen and the cap felt very heavy … really heavy … I had my
Deccan brushed Masterpiece in my pocket
and when I compared the weights of the caps just by holding each cap in either
palm, I could sense the heaviness …
The pen is a green and black combination with steel on the cap adding
the ‘steel’ … the pen looks sturdy and the cap is very well done … the green is
actually military green and my personal opinion is that steel goes well with
green … I had always admired the green steel capped Advocate more than the
brown steel capped one, but somehow that Advocate is not in my collection … the
black, military green, and steel makes a very pleasing combination for me … and
as you can see, the nib is a regular large one found in Deccan Masterpiece
fountain pens …
Posting the cap makes it heavy at the barrel end and therefore one has
to hold the section more firmly than usual while writing … it would be better
to use the pen unposted … and since the pen was inked for testing, I tried
writing and as expected, the flow is even and the nib smooth … and Zubair said
he has taken the pen out after two weeks and I wrote with it and no starting
trouble at all … I have seen this amazing feature myself with my Deccan pens
and it is one of the outstanding features of Deccan pens and found in very few
Indian ebonite pens … I am pleased that this quality continues in this pen too
…
As of now, this is the only piece that was made … a sort of prototype
model … and Zubair gave it to me for the time being … here are some pics of
this new model circa 2014 …
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