Continuing my quest for fountain pens from Andhra Pradesh
& Telangana…
I had heard about Hema fountain pens or rather, I had seen
the name of Hema Pen Company on the net while browsing for information on
fountain pens in Hyderabad, but I understood that they no longer manufacture
fountain pens and there is Hema Pen Stores, also in Hyderabad, and when I
called them to find out about fountain pens, they told me that they don’t sell
fountain pens anymore and only sell general stationery…
But I instinctively felt that there are Hema fountain pens
out there and it is only a matter of time before luck smiled on me…and luck did
indeed smile on me and in the most unexpected of places … right in my
neighbourhood, in a small stationery shop… I go with the intention of asking in
small stationery shops about fountain pens but most of the times, I stop short
and come back without asking…and most of the times that I have stopped and
asked, I have been rewarded and how!! I
had found a whole set of Misak Pens in a dusty folder in a small shop in Hyderabad
when I had stopped and asked… and again when I stopped and asked in this
stationery shop near my house, the owner rummaged around in the bottom of his
cupboard and came up with an old cardboard box which contained two Hema ebonite
fountain pens…I only have to overcome my diffidence…!!
Here are the pictures of these two lovely looking ebonite
fountain pens…
Hema FPs capped…the pens have nice flat ends… |
Caps & Clips…nice flat clips…
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Brand name on the barrel…
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Hema FPs uncapped…
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Hema FPs posted…posts well…
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The nibs…I feel these are nibs customized for the Hema brand…in one, you can see the brand name HEMA with SWISS POINT along with some decorative etchings…and when I pulled out the nib, below all these, I saw the letters H.P.C. etched inside an oval …the letters presumably standing for Hema Pen Company…the other nib doesn’t have the brand name, and instead of SWISS POINT, we have SWISS ELECTRO POINT along with a kind of three point star and two small circles etched on the face of the nib…and again, below all these, I saw the letters B.P.D. etched inside an oval…I wonder what the letters stand for…and it was kind of refreshing to see SWISS instead of the ubiquitous GERMANY that one sees very often on Indian ebonite pens…
The feeders…plain ones…
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At present I don’t have any information about the
manufacturer/s as such, which would have added some history to the brand…for
the time being, we have to make do with pictures…!!!
As in the case of so many small fountain pen making units in
Andhra Pradesh & Telangana that have closed shop, Hema pens too are no
longer being made… so, for me finding these two Hema Fountain Pens was
delightful and added to my collection of fountain pens from Andhra Pradesh
& Telangana…
These are simple no-frills pens, but they form a part of the
history of fountain pens in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana…and India…
And the search continues…
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