Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Two-Tone Fountain Pen Nib-Plum.jpg

File:Two-Tone Fountain Pen Nib-Plum.jpg, featured

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[Plum Version (Preferred by me)]

Info created by ElooKoN - uploaded by ElooKoN - nominated by ElooKoN -- ElooKoN (talk) 01:28, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Info gallery fixed to Tools because similar image is also listed there. MZaplotnik^(talk) 22:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 20:03, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Aristeas (talk) 10:42, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose background is distracting Buidhe (talk) 15:17, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --XRay 💬 17:30, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 22:15, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 10:37, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Since i made similar, i spent hours to edit scratches on the nib. So could be done here - to become FP. --Mile (talk) 13:04, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Please don't understand me wrong, but that is an absolute no-go. At least for me, because I am documenting. This is a close-up of the two-tone nib of a historic vintage fountain pen and shall not look like a synthetic product photo for advertisements. On the contrary, such details are important to give the photo depth. The viewer shall see the reality. --ElooKoN (talk) 00:33, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question Can we get some information who used it, since historic. When was made. This background isnt compatible for "historic mode", but more as an commercial. --Mile (talk) 07:53, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Answer: The pen is a Faber Castell Osmia 883, it is a post-war pen of the mid 1950s. I don't know who used it, but that was not I referred to by historic. By historic I refer to the fact that these type of pens are not made any more. The nibs of these pins behave very different from nowadays nibs. Nowaday, nibs are stiff while in the early days they were, due to a different manufacturing process, quite elastic or sometimes even flexible. From what I know, there was still much handiwork (heat treatment and hammering the nib to achieve an elastic geometric shape) involved, even if they punched the blanks out of gold sheets. Unfortunately much knowledge got lost. We can say, that the golden age of these pens was between 1910-1959. Today you don't get such nibs, even not from the most important and popular manufacturers.--ElooKoN (talk) 12:14, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support This close up is very nice. I like it. --Tungster24 (talk) 18:03, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support I also prefer this version. -- Radomianin (talk) 21:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ivar (talk) 15:26, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support ×Elvorix^talk 07:36, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Buidhe. -- Karelj (talk) 20:55, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative [Gray Version]

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 06:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects#Tools

The chosen alternative is: File:Two-Tone Fountain Pen Nib-Plum.jpg