Detailed Description

Here we have an early 1940's Japanese Hotho Pen. I do not know much about this pen company except that it was listed in the 1926 Japanese Pen Maker Directory, so they had been in business for at least that long. I've never seen a pre-war Hotho, but I would guess that they were hard rubber Onoto-style under-over feed pens. I have found a few of these war time Hotho's however. I've never seen a post war Hotho as well, so I would wager that the company didn't survive the war. Often pen companies were retooled during the war to manufacture bullets and bombs, making them ideal targets during the Tokyo bombing runs.

Unlike most of the Hotho's that I have seen this pen is in a lovely red and orange flame celluloid. Most of the Hotho's are either black hard rubber or a plain black celluloid.

The nib has a little scratch to it, but as you would expect from a War-time Japanese pen, the nib has some wonderful springy flex

The pen is a Japanese eyedropper filler with the ink cutoff plunger. For more information on Japanese eyedropper pens click here

 

Nib:	Iridium tipped fine point with flex.
Filling System	eyedropper
Working Condition	Excellent
Faults:	The pen has some wear.
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