Warning: Stolen Pens !

[JeanB]

THE FOLLOWING PENS HAVE BEEN STOLEN IN MY CAR IN PARIS APRIL,5 2013

If you see these pens on Ebay, elsewhere, or if someone wants to sell these pens to you, please contact me at jean.buchser@wanadoo.fr

A reward will be given to whom will help me to recover these pens.

 

WATERMAN 414 SLEEVE FILLER

WATERMAN 12 VS EARLY SAFETY w/ STERLING OVERLAY

WATERMAN 412 EARLY FINE SILVER FILIGREE

WATERMAN 412 ON RED HARD RUBBER (ARGENT SUR EBONITE ROUGE)

WATERMAN 622 TAPER CAP AND MOTHER OF PEARL (NACRE CAPUCHON POINTU)

WATERMAN 55 WITH TWO GOLD BANDS (BAGUES AUX EXTREMITES)

MONTBLANC 149

OLDWIN ART DECO CELLULOÏD STIPULA

PARKER DUOFOLD SENIOR STREAMLINED BURGUNDY&BLACK OBLIQUE NIB

AURORA DEMONSTRATOR BLACK MATT

STIPULA BLUE DEMO.

 

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[beejay]

Sorry to hear about the theft and I hope you get them back.

beejay

[olivier78860]

Very sorry to read this. Have a look at leboncoin.fr as well.

[Aysedasi]

That's horrible luck Jean.

[Edwaroth]

I am very sorry your pens were stolen. My collection never travels with me, I just have two with me, the others stay home. What were they doing left in a car...in a large city?

Edited April 8, 2013 by Edwaroth

[vikrmbedi]

sorry to hear about that...

 

I guess it is more about the collection itself than there intrinsic value which I am guessing is a lot.

 

anyways you might wasn't to try the local pawn shops...as I think a person commiting such a crime would be interested in quick buck rather then selling them one by one.

 

also you may want to try the lost and found of the public transport offices...as they might have been left behind(if they were stolen with anything else).

 

the advice is the result of too many detective stories... .

 

regards

 

vikram

[Bo Bo Olson]

Dam, what a beautiful selection of pens.

 

Do Email each of the pawn shops with in 50 Km.

[BrandonA]

Do you have serial numbers for the pens?

 

Out of curiousity, why would you leave such a great collection in your car? I trust they are not fully assured?

[OakIris]

Oh my goodness, you must be sick at heart. I know I would be.

 

I can't imagine that any of the vintage pens would be easy to replace, and all of the pens were ones that you cherished, I am sure. They are quite beautiful.... I wish you all the best and hope that you are able to recover at least some of them.

 

Holly

[Christi0469]

These pens are sadly out of my market to shop for but I wish you all the luck in the world to find them. I agree that pawn shops are the most likely place for your pens to show up.

[coyotewhisper]

Jean, so sorry for your loss, those pens look irreplaceable. I do hope that they are found..

[GutSchrift]

so, so sorry. All my wishes that you find them. In addition to pawn shops (if the crooks are smart enough) they might try to sell them on ebay or through a vintage / antique pen dealer (though I imagine a dealer might sense a dishonest seller). We'll all keep our eyes open for them!

[myn]

So very sorry for your loss Jean.

[Runnin_Ute]

Sorry to hear those beautiful pens were stolen. Some good ideas have been given.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Sorry to hear about the theft. It's really terrible when something that you really like has been taken, perhaps by thieves who don't even know what they're taking.

[JeanB]

Thank you all for your support ! it helps !

All best

 

Jean

[ever onward]

So sorry to hear about this. I wish you the best of luck. I check ebay regularly, and I'll keep my eyes open for your pens.

 

ever onward

[inkstainedruth]

What a rotten thing to have happen. I've lost pens that were a lot less valuable, and it was an awful feeling. I can't imagine what you must be going through right now, but the house my husband and I owned when we first got married was burglarized on several occasions (cash, a VCR, and stereo equipment -- fortunately all relatively easily replaceable; unlike vintage pens).

If the pens were in some sort of case, it might be (also unfortunately) that the thief didn't realize what it was that he/she had.

Years ago I knew a guy here in the US, who was in the Merchant Marines. He was in New Haven, CT, looking for a ship to sign up with (I forget if he had had his first mate's training at that point or not). While there, his car was broken into. What was stolen from Roy? Not the radio, not the (real!) sword he had in the trunk, not even the car itself. What was taken was his *suitcase*. Which contained clothes, but also his router book with sea charts, shipping lanes, etc. Which would have been completely useless to the average burglar, but prevented him for getting a job -- ANY job -- on a ship without replacing it (and that would have cost him, at the time, around $600 US -- which was, at the time roughly 2-3 weeks salary for me working as a graphic artist). I never heard whether or not he ever got it back. I suspect the thief was looking for stuff to hock easily and quickly, and -- if that was the case -- probably got a fraction of the intrinsic value for it. Whereas Roy was not only out the cost of replacing it, but unemployable in his field until and unless he did....

Keeping fingers crossed that your pens are recovered -- they did look lovely, especially the overlay ones.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Truffle Finder]

My heart goes out to you Jean B.

A few years ago, I 'lost' a small folder of vintage fountain pens, and it broke my heart, so I do empathise with your situation. Fortunately, I found them, it turned out that I had just put them somewhere 'safe', but I didn't come across them until a good 6 months later.

Although I think that it is very unlikely that I might be offered your pens at Portobello Market, I will keep an eye open in case they are offered to me, but I think that it would be a good idea, if you contacted the Battersea Pen Home, and sent them the photographs so that Simon knows what to look out for, he has probably the most google 'hits' of any 'pen' web-site in Europe.

Also, it might be a good idea to inform the Writing Equipment Society, perhaps they might be able to let their members know about it.

I've often wondered when these things happen, what exactly one is meant to do, if one is offered stolen items, unless there just happens to be a friendly policeman standing nearby, when the said items are offered. Personally, I think that I would offer a ridiculously small amount for them, and hope that the offer was accepted, [i think that it would be unlikely that the thieves would know the real value] then contact the rightful owner, and hope that they would be only too grateful to just get them back. But if there is a better suggestion, I would be pleased to know about it.

Best of luck with your efforts to get them back.

Truffle Finder.

[WanderingAuthor]

Ouch! I hope you get your pens back. I've been sick over the loss of far easier pens to replace.