Toledo fountain pen
As a Toledo fountain pens are quality fountain pen called, which were produced using the Toledo technique. The processing is done exclusively by hand.
Toledo fountain pens were mainly produced in the 1920s to 1930s, during which time the Montblanc , Kaweco , Parker , Waterman , Osmia and Pelikan companies were major manufacturers of writing implements such as fountain pens and fountain pens. Many smaller manufacturers also had models with Toledo covers in their range. The Pelikan-Toledo was manufactured using a completely different process, which only gave a visually similar result.
Toledo technology
One is as Toledo Engineering damascening similar method called, which originally comes from the Arab countries, it has been applied in the past only for Musketengriffe and as an ornament for daggers, cutlasses, swords and armor. A wire made of a different material is inserted and hammered into a previously manufactured channel. This process creates surfaces that are similar to the inlays known from wood processing .
Another method is coloring (for example, using screen printing ) the base material (originally always iron, later copper because it does not oxidize as quickly as iron). All non-colored areas are reshaped with small styluses and a hammer. The craftsman has a large number of different burins available and can deepen the surface, i.e. cut it out, or even just deform it. Then the metal is gold-plated (24 carat to get a really high gloss level). The paint is then removed and the workpiece is dipped in a chemical. The gold is not attacked, but all other surfaces are blackened. The result is a stark contrast between gold and black.
