The Heiko Junior was a widespread school fountain pen from the GDR in the late 1980s, inexpensive, extremely robust and visually appealing. Its design follows the principle of adding nothing and leaving nothing out: trouble-prone details such as a clip were deliberately omitted, since these would quickly break off on a school pen anyway. The Junior was available among others in a subdued turquoise as well as in orange.
The plain steel nib offers the stability required for a school fountain pen but does not write hard like a 'nail'. Ink flow, however, is not equally good on all examples — some pens write very juicily, others rather sparingly. As a workhorse for daily use the Junior also satisfies today's demands. Travel, by contrast, it likes less: larger pressure differences, e.g. on aircraft, and stronger shocks it acknowledges with blots. Today the Heiko Junior can still often be found cheaply on the collector market.