This Pelikan 500 in black is strictly user grade. There are multiple dents and dings to the cap and they can be removed only by someone more skilled than I. But aside from these cosmetic faults the pen would be a fine and elegant user or a placeholder in a starting collection. (GSH27)

This pen is also part of a collection of mostly Pelikans that I have been asked to sell by the family of Gilly Hart, who was my first webmaster after my daughter Anna, designer of the site, went off to college. Sadly, Gilly died in February 2020 at the age of 38.