FOUNTAIN PEN 664 / OSMIA / A.W.FABER-CASTELL / BLACK COLOR
파버카스텔 - 오스미아 만년필 664 블랙
On the other day, I uploaded the fountain pen 663.
This one has the similar numbering, so I guess both belong to the same series even though they look different.
This model has more features of Osmia fountain pens, and this is older than the fountain pen 663 I posted.
It has two gold rings on the bottom of the cap, and an Osmia imprints on the clip.
A diamond trade mark of Osmia as expected.
Fountain pen 664. The gold letters were faded.
The imprints on the backside says "A.W.FABER-CASTELL / DOSSENHEIM HEIDELBERG."
It was made from a factory in Dossenheim near Heidelberg.
There was a fountain pen company Osmia, which was acquired by Faber Castell.
The interesting point is that there are so many variations in the way Faber Castell put their names.
This way of imprinting Dossenheim on the backside of the barrel is the older way.
As time goes on, Faber Castell started to locate imprinting below the Osmia logo on the front part of the barrel.
Some pens were imprinted "A.W.FABER-CASTELL" and some have "Made by A.W.FABER-CASTELL." So there was two ways at least.
After that, Faber Castell completely deleted Osmia logo except for the diamond mark on the cap.
The only lettering if Faber Castell, and there is no Osmia name.
This is my conjecture.
At the time Faber company just acquired Osmia, the Faber company needed the name power of Osmia to promote their fountain pens.
As time goes on, however, Faber Castell became more and more famous, so they no longer needed to rely on the name Osmia.
Hence, they deleted the traces of Osmia step by step.
I don't know the exact sequence, but the traces of Osmia were (1) Osmia logo on the nib. (2) Diamond mark on the nib. (3) Osmia logo on the clip (4) Diamond mark on top of the cap. (5) Osmia logo on the barrel.
The nib of this pen has both (1) and (2).
The number 4 inside the diamond mark seems to indicate the size of the nib.
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