Platignum 100 Capillary Pen 1958-1962

The Platignum 100 Capillary Pen was yet another attempt to market a capillary-filling fountain pen in response to the growing sales of ballpoint pens eating into the fountain pen market. The Parker 61 (test-marketed as early as 1953 but not officially released until 1956) and the Waterman X-Pen (introduced in the United States in 1959) are probably the best known of these pens, but there were others, including the Stratford Wonder-Fill and this pen. All of these pens have hooded nibs.

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