Chinese FP

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I’ve just received my new acquisition from ISellPens.com.
It’s Picasso #PS-81 fountain pen (cartridge/converter) titled “Girl in Flower”
Picasso in one of many pen manufactures (Hero, Duke etc.) based in Shanghai, China.

I’ve made the purchase of this pen for the sole reason of being a colorful pen and more as a conversational piece
It came in a nice gift box consisting of outer box, inner box and a hinged cosmetic box.

The pen is made of metal and it’s very well constructed.
Being made of metal does make the pen slightly heavy but not too heavy to discourage one from use as a daily pen.
It has striking combination of vibrant Blue and Yellow pattern on gold plated barrel, cap and clip. The same Blue and
Yellow pattern is done on the clip as well.

The gold plating appears to be uniformly applied and do not see any sign of thin plating etc.
The pen is medium sized and its length is 137mm capped and 147mm posted. The OD of the barrel at the largest
part is 11.3mm.

Comparing to other FPs that I have Picasso is one size larger than MB144.
The cap is snap on type with crisp snap and when posted it makes the pen somewhat slightly top heavy.
The nib is 10K “M” with Picasso logo on the nib along with marking of “10K” and “240”.

I have not had time to prepare the nib nor ink the pen due to lot of business travels (and GTG) but just as soon as my
schedule permits I’ll do a follow-up.