General
As previously said, as that the market price of a Senator vintage has been dropped to a more competitive levels, the main problem to overcome is pen colour conservatism, most Senator pens we encountered are of jet-black colour. This pen is not black, it is marble green. Additionally, it appeared at an on-line auction in March 2013 and was purchased new for the worldly sum of £24. Not bad at all.
Features
A green marble fountain pen goes well with green ink. The Octopus Tiefgrun ink from Germany did very nicely on this occasion. With piston filler design, its mechanism looks virtually identical to our two black Senators. All our Senator pens were probably made about 40-45 years ago. The original marble green Senator nib is stamped as M (medium) in size but it feels more like F (Fine), making 0.12mm small difference an interesting experience here. One thing that makes me wonder here is the slight shrinkage of the green cup, where the single gold-plated ring had become slightly loose. This occurs quite often on the pre-WWII marble pens. It is possible here, that this pen is older, but judging from the nib details and style it is definitely post WWII produced. What supports this theory is also the measured (M11.4) thread holding both cup and cylinder together.
Comment
If the pens could talk…This is not a completely new vintage designed fountain pen, so any comments as to expected reliability are not superfluous, but certainly from the concept and generic design point of view including its current price, there were nothing here that could be complained of.
Ink used: Octopus Tiefgrun, Germany
