The years 1937 and 1938 were commemorable for Günter Wagner.

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• In 1937, the company changed the design of nib imprint. Between “Pelikan'' and “14 KARAT” was inserted “585”, which was the purity of gold based on millesimal fineness. Millesimal fineness is the system of denoting the purity of alloys by parts per thousand of pure metal in the alloy. The system had already been used in gold sleeve.

• In 1937, the company introduced model 100N. “N” stood for new, but rather than replace model 100, model 100N was produced concurrently, initially just for the export market.

• In late 1937, Prof. Hadanck, who would design the company’s 100th anniversary catalog, redesigned the Pelikan logo (Fig.4 right). The typography of "Pelikan" was also modified (Fig.6 right).

• On April 28, 1938, Günter Wagner celebrated the 100th anniversary, and offered model 100N for the domestic market as part of the celebration.

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So, along with the emergence of model 100N, the new nib imprint and cap top logo marked the new generation of model 100.

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At the same time, however, the war effort had cast a shadow over the company’s history, which the official site does not mention (as for the untold history, please refer to "The Concessions Of War: Pelikan, WWII, And The Untold Story"). Shortage and rationing had already begun. I'd like to state the situations that Günter Wagner and model 100 were put in.

• As of February 1937, model IBIS, the economy line of the time, was equipped with palladium “Pd” nibs in order to conserve gold for the war effort.

• In mid-1937, gold nibs in stores were bought up from retailers for use in the war effort.

• On February 5, 1938, the use of gold nibs for the domestic market was forbidden by the government (for a while, gold nibs in stock were on the market).

• As of May 16, 1938, models 100 and 100N for the domestic market were fitted with Pd nibs, as the use of raw materials such as gold was put under control of the government.

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So, officially this was the last generation that had the gold nib for the domestic market, and literally the last “golden” generation.

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Note;*Later, feed without recess was introduced. Please see Pelikan 100 (ca.1938) (Fig.11).

⁽¹⁾The pen has nib size specification on the cone (Fig.5), by which we can tell that it was for the domestic market.

⁽²⁾Around 1937, the piston guide was slightly modified. Instead of a pin, a notch (Fig.7) was made to guide the piston rod, but was soon replaced by the ridge along the inside of the piston guide.