Well I bought another pen. Imagine that. The latest addition is another pocket pen from Pilot. This pen is known as the Pilot Elite and is similar to the MYU 701 in design. It appears to be made out of the same surgical stainless steel material. This pen however has an 18k white gold nib instead of the integrated stainless nib.

As you can see it's mint with the original sticker still on the pen. This style of pen was introduced in 1967 by Pilot and was known as a "pocket size pen". Short when capped and long when posted for writing. Advertised as the perfect pen to carry in your pocket. I don't know if pockets were shorter back then maybe.

These pens have a spring loaded clip to allow for varying degrees of thickness for pocket material.

One nice thing about many Pilot pens is that they are date coded. This one is stamped H1276 on the nib, indicating that it was produced in December, 1976.

Another interesting thing is this pen's "sticker price" is actually higher than the MYU 701 black stripe pen.

The hard part is deciding whether I want to use it or not. Actually I know I WANT to use it, I just don't know if I want to use it.

I'm hesitant to let everyone in on this as I like getting first crack on good deals, but I will anyway, if you are interested in pens like this and getting a bargain on it to boot you might want to send an email to Stan Klemanowicz at stanklem@dslextreme.com [1] and ask him to add you to his mailing list for Japanese pens. Let him know you heard about it on PenPassion.com. I'm not affiliated with Stan in anyway, I'm just a happy customer.