FABER CASTELL ALPHA-MATIC & ALPHA-BALL GOLD SET FOR 230TH ANNIVERSARY (1991)
파버카스텔 알파매틱 & 알파볼 골드 세트 (1991)
Alpha-matic mechanical pencil series was made after TK-matic series as a more advanced model, following its non-stopping automatic mechanism.
When was Alpha-matic first made?
I guess they were introduced in the early 1980s, I don't know the answer though.
Alpha-matics had the ballpoint pen counterpart, Alpha-balls, yet they are not so popular as Alpha-matics nowadays.
These Alpha series showed off very expensive prices, which still might be considered to be reasonable taking its high-quality into account, even in the 80s.
As I said in the earlier post of Alpha-matic gold, Faber Castell presented Alpha-matic and Alpha-ball in gold plating to commemorate its 230th birthday in 1991.
I only introduced the Alpha-matic at that moment, I now have both Alpha-matic and Alpha-ball on the other hand.
These two have the same shining full-gold colors.
Some say it is 24K gold while others say 23K gold.
Considering they were manufactured to celebrate Faber Castell's 230th birthday, I'd like to take side of the 23K plating.
One interesting thing regarding this gold series is the logo you can see above the grip.
I've seen several Alpha-matic and Alpha-ball gold pens, and I noticed some have this logo while the others don't have this.
In fact, the earlier Alpha-matic gold model I posted doesn't have this name.
I don't think the logo was removed - there isn't any vestige of it, and I saw many such cases as I said.
I believe some models actually were made without the logo from the beginning, so there are two different types in effect.
The frontal parts of mechanical pencil and ballpoint pen are slightly different.
Alpha-ball has a wider entrance as it has a thicker pen point.
The grip looks the same for both, and this grip also looks identical to the TK-matics.
Faber Castell's emblem on the clip.
This symbol has become the trade mark of current Graf von Faber Castell.
The back-ends of the mechanical pencil and the ballpoint pen are distinguishable.
It's because the Alpha-balls need no push button.
They have a twist mechanism, which can be seen many ballpoint pens even upto now.
It's funny that even the backsides look different.
They basically don't require dissimilar backside view, but they became like this somehow.
When the lead sleeve and the ballpoint pen are ejected.
Not every Alpha-matics has this retractable lead sleeve.
Made in W. Germany.
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