This fountain pen is a rare find from Beijing, China. This is produced by Golden Star Pen Company based in Beijing and sold to me by a pen shop there. I was told that the snakes (small ones) were reared by Golden Star for their factory. In fact, GS pens are now hard to find even in Beijing and one has to hunt and leave through old stationery shops to find them. This pen, as I was told is more than 30 years old but does not look a day older.

It is slim but not thin and seems to be made very well with clean finishing. I will try out the pen in the next few days perhaps with Visconti ink just in case the feed here is not so forgiving.