My Chinese Fountain Pen Collection

[shrujaya]

Hi everybody...

 

This happened almost a month ago…

 

I never thought I'd add Chinese Fountain Pens to my collection...but it so happened that I was kind of on the verge of being duped by an FP dealer who quoted an exorbitant variable rate on an FP that I had longed to buy...I did not buy it, not because I couldn't, but I strongly felt that this person was trying to con me and didn’t want to succumb...I was proved right when a fellow FP enthusiast and friend confirmed my suspicions...but I was angry and irritated at this and the next day, like a angry lover on a rebound, I went looking for this shop which stored Chinese FPs...I had visited this shop earlier, almost 2 years back, to buy an FP...I was not into collecting FPs then...I just wanted a nice looking FP...I found this very good looking metal screw cap big nibbed Hero FP and bought it...but that shopwallah also showed me the entire range of Chinese FPs that he had...I was not interested then and did not buy any more...but now that I had started collecting, I thought, why not...and went to this shop...the ownership of the shop had changed hands and another person was in charge...but they still had those Chinese FPs, not the entire range though...and I splurged...kind of retail therapy... (I added a couple of pens to that initial range...Hero 616 and Wing Sung 727 – double pen, purchased with Hari)... some of the Wing Sung FPs are really beautiful... I have dip tested all of them...and currently using 3 alternatively...all pens write well...at least that part is taken care of... here are the photos...and the names of these pens are...first Wing Sung-s...WS 727 double pen (the one in the centre); Wing Sung 608 Blue and Wing Sung 608 Brown (on either sides of the 727); Wing Sung 606 Brown and Wing Sung 606 Blue (on either ends); and Wing Sung 603 Black lines on Blue (the one that is horizontal); then Hero-s...Hero 616 (bluish green body with the arrow clip); Hero 330 (brown body with gold coloured cap); Hero 60 (light brownish coloured body with half nib); Hero 378 (steel cap with black body and big full Nib); Hero 27A (silver coloured body and cap with full nib); Hero 2C blue; Hero 2C gold...

 

A beautiful looking 14kt gold nib Jinhao and Hero 849 (Integrated nib) have also been since added to the Chinese range…I tried taking photographs of the Jinhao, the results were not so good…will have to do it patiently…I also have two more Chinese fountain pens named Aolite and Beide...will post pictures of these separately...Hari has already posted a review of the Integrated Nib Hero FP...

 

Thanks...

 

Jai

 

http://bp1.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BKYho7TI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ei_u_XWwXi8/s1600-h/Wing%20Sungs%20-%20capped.JPG

 

http://bp0.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BKIho7SI/AAAAAAAAADE/b9dUwWBcdz0/s1600-h/Wing%20Sung-nibs%20close%20up.JPG

 

http://bp2.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BJoho7RI/AAAAAAAAAC8/W4c5gOW5Gzs/s1600-h/Capped%20Heroes.JPG

 

http://bp0.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BJIho7QI/AAAAAAAAAC0/P19yiqTr2Zk/s1600-h/Hero-nibs%20close%20up.JPG

Edited June 2, 2008 by shrujaya

[shrujaya]

Hi everybody...

 

This happened almost a month ago…

 

I never thought I'd add Chinese Fountain Pens to my collection...but it so happened that I was kind of on the verge of being duped by an FP dealer who quoted an exorbitant variable rate on an FP that I had longed to buy...I did not buy it, not because I couldn't, but I strongly felt that this person was trying to con me and didn’t want to succumb...I was proved right when a fellow FP enthusiast and friend confirmed my suspicions...but I was angry and irritated at this and the next day, like a angry lover on a rebound, I went looking for this shop which stored Chinese FPs...I had visited this shop earlier, almost 2 years back, to buy an FP...I was not into collecting FPs then...I just wanted a nice looking FP...I found this very good looking metal screw cap big nibbed Hero FP and bought it...but that shopwallah also showed me the entire range of Chinese FPs that he had...I was not interested then and did not buy any more...but now that I had started collecting, I thought, why not...and went to this shop...the ownership of the shop had changed hands and another person was in charge...but they still had those Chinese FPs, not the entire range though...and I splurged...kind of retail therapy... (I added a couple of pens to that initial range...Hero 616 and Wing Sung 727 – double pen, purchased with Hari)... some of the Wing Sung FPs are really beautiful... I have dip tested all of them...and currently using 3 alternatively...all pens write well...at least that part is taken care of... here are the photos...and the names of these pens are...first Wing Sung-s...WS 727 double pen (the one in the centre); Wing Sung 608 Blue and Wing Sung 608 Brown (on either sides of the 727); Wing Sung 606 Brown and Wing Sung 606 Blue (on either ends); and Wing Sung 603 Black lines on Blue (the one that is horizontal); then Hero-s...Hero 616 (bluish green body with the arrow clip); Hero 330 (brown body with gold coloured cap); Hero 60 (light brownish coloured body with half nib); Hero 378 (steel cap with black body and big full Nib); Hero 27A (silver coloured body and cap with full nib); Hero 2C blue; Hero 2C gold...

 

A beautiful looking 14kt gold nib Jinhao and Hero 849 (Integrated nib) have also been since added to the Chinese range…I tried taking photographs of the Jinhao, the results were not so good…will have to do it patiently…I also have two more Chinese fountain pens named Aolite and Beide...will post pictures of these separately...Hari has already posted a review of the Integrated Nib Hero FP...

 

Thanks...

 

Jai

 

http://bp1.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BKYho7TI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ei_u_XWwXi8/s1600-h/Wing%20Sungs%20-%20capped.JPG

 

http://bp0.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BKIho7SI/AAAAAAAAADE/b9dUwWBcdz0/s1600-h/Wing%20Sung-nibs%20close%20up.JPG

 

http://bp2.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BJoho7RI/AAAAAAAAAC8/W4c5gOW5Gzs/s1600-h/Capped%20Heroes.JPG

 

http://bp0.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BJIho7QI/AAAAAAAAAC0/P19yiqTr2Zk/s1600-h/Hero-nibs%20close%20up.JPG

 

[shrujaya]

Hi...Jai here...I tried very hard...something went wrong with the uploading of photos...anyway...in case you people have the patience, please see the photos on blogsite http://jaisiri.blogspot.com/2008/05/chines...endemonium.html

 

Thanks

 

Jai

 

Hi everybody...

 

This happened almost a month ago…

 

I never thought I'd add Chinese Fountain Pens to my collection...but it so happened that I was kind of on the verge of being duped by an FP dealer who quoted an exorbitant variable rate on an FP that I had longed to buy...I did not buy it, not because I couldn't, but I strongly felt that this person was trying to con me and didn’t want to succumb...I was proved right when a fellow FP enthusiast and friend confirmed my suspicions...but I was angry and irritated at this and the next day, like a angry lover on a rebound, I went looking for this shop which stored Chinese FPs...I had visited this shop earlier, almost 2 years back, to buy an FP...I was not into collecting FPs then...I just wanted a nice looking FP...I found this very good looking metal screw cap big nibbed Hero FP and bought it...but that shopwallah also showed me the entire range of Chinese FPs that he had...I was not interested then and did not buy any more...but now that I had started collecting, I thought, why not...and went to this shop...the ownership of the shop had changed hands and another person was in charge...but they still had those Chinese FPs, not the entire range though...and I splurged...kind of retail therapy... (I added a couple of pens to that initial range...Hero 616 and Wing Sung 727 – double pen, purchased with Hari)... some of the Wing Sung FPs are really beautiful... I have dip tested all of them...and currently using 3 alternatively...all pens write well...at least that part is taken care of... here are the photos...and the names of these pens are...first Wing Sung-s...WS 727 double pen (the one in the centre); Wing Sung 608 Blue and Wing Sung 608 Brown (on either sides of the 727); Wing Sung 606 Brown and Wing Sung 606 Blue (on either ends); and Wing Sung 603 Black lines on Blue (the one that is horizontal); then Hero-s...Hero 616 (bluish green body with the arrow clip); Hero 330 (brown body with gold coloured cap); Hero 60 (light brownish coloured body with half nib); Hero 378 (steel cap with black body and big full Nib); Hero 27A (silver coloured body and cap with full nib); Hero 2C blue; Hero 2C gold...

 

A beautiful looking 14kt gold nib Jinhao and Hero 849 (Integrated nib) have also been since added to the Chinese range…I tried taking photographs of the Jinhao, the results were not so good…will have to do it patiently…I also have two more Chinese fountain pens named Aolite and Beide...will post pictures of these separately...Hari has already posted a review of the Integrated Nib Hero FP...

 

Thanks...

 

Jai

 

http://bp1.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BKYho7TI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ei_u_XWwXi8/s1600-h/Wing%20Sungs%20-%20capped.JPG

 

http://bp0.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BKIho7SI/AAAAAAAAADE/b9dUwWBcdz0/s1600-h/Wing%20Sung-nibs%20close%20up.JPG

 

http://bp2.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BJoho7RI/AAAAAAAAAC8/W4c5gOW5Gzs/s1600-h/Capped%20Heroes.JPG

 

http://bp0.blogger.com/_XjOWAdNeh0Y/SD5BJIho7QI/AAAAAAAAAC0/P19yiqTr2Zk/s1600-h/Hero-nibs%20close%20up.JPG

 

[JDlugosz]

We have similar tastes/interests. I'll be looking for more Hero pens myself.

 

But, buying by the box, my wife is making me get rid of half of these first.

 

--John

[shrujaya]

Hi all...when I wrote out this post, I did not know about photostorage sites and tried to upload photos from FNP itself...did not work and so my post went without photos...I had taken these pics to be posted here...I am slightly more aware now and have learnt to upload pics and paste their urls hers, thanks to Hari...it must seem odd that I have retrieved the post after 4 months and have uploaded pics...here they are...BTW, I love all these pens...I have never seen such 'beautiful' pens...I have added some more to this collection since...

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/1CappedHeroes-1.jpg

All Hero-s capped

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/2Heropens-posted.jpg

Hero Pens-posted

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/3Hero-nibscloseup.jpg

Close up of Hero sections and nibs

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/4WingSungs-capped.jpg

Wing Sung pens - capped

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/5WingSungs-posted.jpg

Wing Sung pens - posted

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/6WingSung-nibscloseup-1.jpg

Wing Sung pens - sections and nibs close up

 

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn280/bambli_mass/7Chinese-MenofWar.jpg

All Chinese Pens in a Chakkar (circle)

 

Regards,

 

Jayasrinivasa Rao

 

[rahulg]

Oh how lovely!

 

I'm a little curious though, did you get the 616 in Hyderabad? Last time I checked Deccan did not stock it. Seriously awesome stash though.

 

Great job, hope you spend many wonderful hours with them.

 

Rahul

[footballfana]

hi srujaya nice collection

i remember using fountain pens during my school days when everything was not so fast paced and the only ball pens in the market was either reynolds or a rotomac. i would like to start using them again. beside the hero pen with the hooded nib i would like to try out some other cheaper chinese pens then may be move on to serious ones

would you be kind enough to share the address of the chinese pen shop. from the looks of your signature photo it looks like a pen made by the deccan pen stores at abid hyderabad, i may be wrong but just trying my luck

[shrujaya]

Hi...thanks for visiting and writing...the shop from where I bought most of these pens then in 2008 is behind Dadu's mithai vatika in Paradise...this is a stationery shop which used to stock a lot of Chinese FPs...when I visited them some months back, I could see that they haven't re-stocked...the other shop you can try for Chinese FPs is Sandeep Pen Mart in the Begum Bazar area...I had visited it once a year back and found that they stocked quite a lot of Jinhaos...but I had a hell of a time locating the shop...it is in a kind of complex and the shop is located inside a lane...anyway, I dont want to confuse you further...

 

Yes...that is the Deccan Masterpiece in my signature...

 

Regards,

 

shrujaya

[shrujaya]

Hi...I had mentioned Sandeep Pen Mart as one of the shops that sell Chinese FPs, especially Jinhaos, but I kind of vaguely mentioned the location...I have now located the business card of the shop...so, here are the contact details...

 

Sandeep Pen Mart, 5-2-417/1, Sandeep House, Second Floor, Risala Abdullah, Osmangunj, Hyderabad 500095. Phone; 040-24737358; 040-66756500

 

I hope this is useful...

 

Regards,

 

shrujaya

[humsin]

Anyone know where I can find Chinese pens in Hong Kong?

[agen10120216]

somewhere like bookstore.

[Hanoi]

I didn't know there are Chinese pens with solid 14k gold tips. What are some with gold tips offered at good values? I'm thinking below 50 USD. Thanks.

[hari317]

 

 

Hanoi, Your avatar picture is lovely!!

[Skyppere]

VERY NICE! Soo pretty, all of them.

My favorite source for Chinese Pens here in the US is Hisnibs.com

 

I have quite a few from him and they are all great pens.

Thanks again for showing us these pens. Now I have more

to hunger for!

skyppere

[sanyalsoumitra]

There is a large collection of Chinese pens here, please visit this blog : << http://soumitrapencollections.blogspot.in >>

[neo4402000]

I am an avid collector of fountain pens too.....