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Tomorrow is the first Friday of November, which means it is Fountain Pen Day (FPD)! It’s OUR day! 😃 For this Friday, try to share the FP love with your co-workers, family, and friends! Let’s meet up this FPD weekend and share our recent acquisitions or perhaps what we just bought for FPD. Peter's Cafe 10 El Camino Real, Millbrae, CA 94030 Sunday - November 3 at 1:00pm Also, check fountainpenday.com for any sales from your favorite stationery retailers!

Fountain Pen Day is a week from today. I made an impulsive purchase last night. I ordered a Franklin-Christoph model 45L in a color that went away. That has made a Fountain Pen Day purchase iffy for me. Then I remembered a topic posted by @amberleadavis about fountain pens at Five Below that would seem to be a budget-minded price. I expect I’ll shop there on Fountain Pen Day, even though the store won’t be celebrating it. I usually get a chocolate cake to celebrate FPD. I suppose I still could. Do you have any plans for Fountain Pen Day 2022?

This Friday, November 2nd is Fountain Pen Day and we are celebrating with a giveaway and a sale! Enter to win 1 of 10 great prizes now: https://www.penchalet.com/fountain_pen_day.aspx Visit penchalet.com this Friday for Fountain Pen Day for great deals on pens, inks and more...

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I very nearly lost my Pelikan M800 Renaissance Brown today, which would have been a terrible way to celebrate Fountain Pen Day. I'm at a medical meeting in Austin, and when I got up to leave the afternoon session, I stopped by the silent auction to see what they had. A former president of the organization is a rather skilled kit pen maker, turning out some beautiful finishes, and he has about a dozen of them in the auction, along with a couple of bottle of Iroshizuku ink. I told the ladies there that it was fountain pen day, and got my case out to show then the M620 Grand Place and the M800 Renaissance Brown I was carrying today. Imagine my horror when the M800 was missing! I went directly back into the meeting room and found it under the chair in front of where I had been sitting. With a huge sigh of relief, I went back out to show it to the ladies. If it hadn't been for those kit pens I had noticed, I probably would not have recovered the Pelikan. So don't ever let anyone tell you that kit pens aren't good for anything! I am tempted to go back and buy one of them out of gratitude. I already have bottles of Take-sumi and Kon-peki, so I don't think I will bid on any of the ink.

What's happening around "International Fountain Pen Day this year. It's coming up shortly and I, for one, have seen nothing about it mentioned. Did I miss something here on FPN? I know one can find information at http://www.fountainpenday.org/ including what looks like a lot of sponsors (more Pen - Day deals???). It would be nice to hear if anyone is doing something really special or unique this year. Or, if you had a nice experience in the past. Thanks for sharing the information.

Dear Fountain pen friends, As many of you know, this Friday, the 3th of November, is a special day... Fountain Pen Day! On Fountain Pen Day we have some specials going on in our webstore, which can be found here>>> Fountain Pen Day Specials (The special prices are only shown on Friday!) Besides the specials we will give away a Visconti Homo Sapiens fountain pen between all the orders on this beautiful day. Also, we will have a special #freefountainpenfriday givea away on Instagram for anyone who is not able to make a purchase in our webstore during this special day. Also, there is a special discount coupon code - FPD17 - which gives you a discount of 17% to celebrate! Happy Fountain Pen Day! Joost Appelboom

Below is pictured the pen I made for fountain pen day. I know... that was yesterday. I made it yesterday. I'm just not telling anyone until now. (I'm a day late) The other catch is that the pen was one I started last Halloween and lost interest in. I decided to finish it this year.. yesterday... about a week late for the holiday. So I'm disorganized... what can I say. Anywho, the pen is pretty cool. Its about the fattest that I have made yet. The section is around 14.25mm. The threads cap to body are 16mm. It is around 5 1/2" long capped and 5 1/4" long uncapped. It is a cartridge converter fill. It can be converted into and eyedropper and comes with a screw in k6 converter. The cap doesn't post it is meant to be left off while you handle the big fat pen . It comes with your choice of steel JOWO nib EF, F, M, B, 1.1, or 1.5. It will be available tomorrow on Ebay (I know I need a website). I would take $125 for it. If you are interested send me a private message. Otherwise Tomorrow night it will be on Ebay (www.jandjwooddesigns.com) for $149.99. Thanks for looking. Questions and comments always welcome.

It's time for me to reduce my ink sample collection. Since International Fountain Pen Day is next week, and because I've appreciated the PIFs on FPN in the past, I've decided to give away a bunch of ink samples. I have 29 samples picked out so far and I might add another one or two before a winner is chosen. Many of the samples have been tested; some are completely unused. They range from about 1ml to several ml. All should have enough for AT LEAST one fill; some will have enough for 5-6 fills. Brands included: Noodler's, KWZ, Pelikan, Private Reserve, J. Herbin, Faber-Castell, Akkerman, and Rohrer & Klinger. The details: List yourself in this thread to enter. I'll choose a winner by random number generator on Fountain Pen Day (Nov. 4) and consider all entries as of the time I get around to drawing a number. I'll post the screen name of the winner on here and PM the winner to get mailing information.Free postage within the US.International entrants agree to pay the difference between US postage cost and the actual international shipping cost (if it's noticeable--otherwise, I'll just cover it).

Happy Fountain Pen Day! Now thru Sunday, save an additional 10% Off Store WIde! No code or coupon needed! Discount applied at Checkout! Save 20% or more on most store items thru Midnight Sunday! Authorized Dealer http://www.federalistpensonline.com

Dear Fountain pen friends, As many of you know, this Friday, the 4th of November, is a special day... Fountain Pen Day! This year will be the 5th time we celebrate our passion for fountain pens and we are happy to do so. On Fountain Pen Day we have some specials going on in our webstore, which can be found here>>> Fountain Pen Day Specials (The specials are only shown on Friday!) Besides the specials we will give away a Lamy CP1 Platinum fountain pen between all the orders on this beautiful day. Also, there is a special discount coupon code - FPD16 - which gives you a discount of 16% to celebrate! Happy Fountain Pen Day! Joost Appelboom

Fountain Pen Day is this Friday! Friday, November 4th, is Fountain Pen Day and Pen Chalet is celebrating by offering the following to our valued customers: Giveaway! We have more than $1500 to giveaway to 10 lucky winners. Enter to win the contest today: https://www.penchalet.com/fountain_pen_day.aspxSpecial Discount! We will be offering a special discount on Fountain Pen Day so come visit on Friday to save. Special Discounted Items! We also will have many items discounted this weekend for Fountain Pen Day!

Happy Fountain Pen Day! Come celebrate with Pen Chalet and save 15% Off anything we sell. We also have many specially discounted items(too many to list). https://www.penchalet.com/fountain_pen_day.aspx

Fountain Pen Day is just over 3 weeks away! Pen Chalet is celebrating this year with our annual giveaway. We have more than $1500 in prices for over 10 lucky winners. Several great fountain pens, inks and stationery. Enter to win today. Here is just a few of the items we are giving away: Visconti Van Gogh “Sunflower” Fountain Pen $289 retail value Parker Sonnet Fountain Pen $140 retail value Taccia Covenant Fountain Pen $129 retail value Aurora Ipsilon Fountain Pen $125 retail valuePelikan Souveran 600 Vibrant Green Special Edition Pelikan Fountain Pen $595 retail value Monteverde Regatta Sport Fountain Pen $289 retail value Limited Edition Rose Gold Lamy AL Star Black Fountain Pen $47 retail value

HisNibs.com update -- Fountain Pen Day sale November 6th, 2015 Greetings, Friday, November 6th is Fountain Pen Day! Come celebrate with us at HisNibs http://www.hisnibs.com and take 20% off of your order of in-stock items placed on November 6th (even already discounted items)! Even though we're celebrating the fountain pen, this applies to anything on the site -- even the spooky Halloween supplies that are still left. The official FPD site Fountain Pen Day http://www.fountainpenday.org/ tells you a bit about the history of the day. Please let me know whether you'd like a laminated bookmark or a commemorative pin -- free, while supplies last -- for any order that you place with HisNibs.com. http://www.hisnibs.com/FPD2015_small.jpg We have two new author posts on the Writers page http://www.hisnibs.com/writers.htm, from KS 'Kaz' Augustin and Charis Melina Brown, and their love of using fountain pens! As this newsletter goes out to a mailing list of thousands of customers, please understand if there's a delay in answering your email queries or orders after one of these is sent. We will respond in order received and as soon as possible! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~in this issue * Fountain Pen Day * Visit the Writers page * 'His Nibs' page on Facebook ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fountain Pen Day http://www.hisnibs.com/FPD2015_small.jpg Fountain Pen Day -- November 6th! As a proud inaugural sponsor of Fountain Pen Day in 2012, come celebrate with us at HisNibs http://www.hisnibs.com/ and take 20% off of your order of in-stock items placed on November 6th (even already discounted items)! Even though we're celebrating the fountain pen, this applies to anything on the site -- even the spooky Halloween supplies that are still left. We'd like to help your celebration with your choice of a free bookmark or button with any order (while supplies last). Just let us know which you'd like! Shop here... - http://www.hisnibs.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit the Writers page http://www.hisnibs.com/Karen%20Szymczyk_small1.jpg KS "Kaz" Augustin has been writing stories for as long as she can remember, but only started getting paid for it in 2007. Before that, she used to write fiction but called them "technical manuals". She owns the micro-press Sandal Press http://www.sandalpress.com/, a genre publisher, and tries to get out more, but often fails. If you have fortitude to spare, you can brighten her day by signing up for the Sandal Press newsletter http://eepurl.com/qD0vf. http://www.hisnibs.com/Charis%20Brown_small1.jpg Charis is a teacher, specializing in the activation and development of intuition in all its methods. She holds graduate degrees in health and psychology, and after an intense and very unexpected spiritual awakening while in college, she dedicated her life to understanding the more subtle areas of perception. She now focuses on bringing those skills to the world at large so everyone can benefit from using their innate, natural intuition and mystical abilities. Her books Journal of a Starseed and Instruction of a Starseed describe her awakening process. She offers online courses currently at http://www.charismelina.com/ Read their posts here... - http://www.hisnibs.com/writers.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'His Nibs' page on Facebook Join us for daily news updates from around the world about fountain pens, ink, handwriting and more! Click here to visit our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/HisNibs1 ********************************************* Save 20% on Fountain Pen Day, November 6th, 2015 Just mention the code FPD20 when placing your order. Check it out now... - http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001y3VxrKUCM3_IJTAf7hSm4kRv4jgzdzmEICv45208WLy3Pju1bI0B1BVDTHyED7BbkGmo2QzqSuwwwAhmrmgn0UF2WtdEm78i Expires: 12:01 AM on November 7th, 2015 *********************************************-- Regards, Norman Haase www.hisnibs.com www.facebook.com/HisNibs1

Hey All, A bunch of us from the NJ Pen Club are getting together on Fountain Pen Day, November 6th, 6:00pm, at the Starbucks at 310 Rt 9 in Manalapan. There, we will meet, drink coffee, discuss pens and give out some Fountain Pen Day Swag graciously provided by Cary at fountainpenday.org If anyone is interested, please contact me directly at tom@goldspot.com to RSVP. Thanks and Have a Happy Halloween!

In honor of 2014 Fountain Pen Day, we have marked down all of our in-stock semi-custom fountain pens by 20%! This is the biggest discount we have ever offered and prices are good through Sunday 11/9. Pricing is reflected on all in-stock items and no coupon code is necessary. Our semi-custom pens are created with the same attention to detail as our full custom pieces but we are able to offer them at a lower price point by using commercially available front sections and metal hardware. Each body is handcrafted from a variety of unique materials including both domestic and exotic hardwoods, vintage plastics, distinctive cast objects, and much more. A note about nibs; While our full custom pens use #6 sized nibs, all of our current semi-custom offerings use #5 sized steel nibs and will accept any of the JoWo nib sections for a small upgrade fee. Please contact me directly before purchasing to discuss nib choices. Visit http://www.fisherofpens.com to view our current inventory.

In my second set of giveaways in celebration of World Fountain Pen Day, I will be giving away two boxes of notebooks and writing tablets as listed below. These are all new, though a few show some cover wear from being lugged around and stored in boxes when I moved. Drawings will be held on November 7 (Fountain Pen Day, naturally). International entries welcome, though I will probably ship slow boat No purchases, no advertisements, just enter using this link: http://ktxc.to/win-notebooks (scroll to the bottom for code and entry form) Also: if you missed the INK SAMPLES giveaway notice, you can enter until November 7. See the full post. Notebook & Paper Pack Giveaway Box #1 Ampad Gold Fibre Premium Writing Pad (5x8 in)Black & Red Hard Cover Spiral Bound (8.x11 in)Claire & Cavallini Paris Notebook (4x5.5 in)Clairefontaine Staplebound, ruled (6x8 in)Doane Paper Grid+Lines Utility Notebook (5x7 in)Field Notes Orange on YellowField Notes standard brownG. Lalo Verge de France Ivory Writing tablet (A4, 8.25x11.75 in.)Kokuyo Campus A, 7mm rule (B5, 7x10 in)Markings Leatherbound (3.5x5.5 in)Muji utility notebook 6mm rule + light grid (B5, 7x10 in)The Pocket Dept. "Backpack", blank (6x6 in)Top Flight Earthbound recycled composition bookVintage WriteRight Stenographer's NotebookWhitelines Hardbound (8x5 in)Writers Blok Cahier, dot grid (7.5 x 10 in) Notebook & Paper Pack Giveaway Box #2 Alfabet Keep it Green recycled journal, gridded (5.75x7.75 in)Ampad Gold Fibre Premium Writing Pad (5x8 in)Claire & Cavallini Paris Notebook (4x5.5 in)Clairefontaine Triomphe writing tablet, ruled (A5, 8.25x5.75 in)Contech Hard(ish) cover composition bookDoane Paper Grid+Lines Utility Notebook (5x7 in)Field Notes Green on YellowField Notes standard brownG. Lalo Verge de France Champagne writing tablet (A5, 8.25x5.75 in)Gallery Leather Pocket Notes, ruled (3.25x6 in)Kokuyo Campus A, 7mm rule (B5, 7x10 in)Michael Roger DeComposition composition bookMoleskine cahier (9.75x7.5 in)Moleskine Cahier, vinyl-like cover, ruled (5x8.25 in)Muji utility notebook 6mm rule (B5, 7x10 in)Paperluxe Monologue Hardbound, ruled (5.75x8.25 in)Piccadilly Medium Primo journal, ruled (5x7 in)Rhodia Staplebound, ruled (6x8 in)The Pocket Dept. "Backpack", blank (6x6 in)

Happy Fountain pen day for all of our fellow fountain pen user!

Giveaway Pen Chalet is running a special for Fountain Pen Day and giving away $1000 in prizes. Coupon Save 15% Off any items with the coupon code FPDAY. We have also discounted the following items with limited quantities on hand(coupon also applies). Discounts 40% Off Platinum President Fountain Pen in Transparent w/ Rhodium trim http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10856-TransparentRhodium.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 40% Off Platinum 3776 Fountain Pen in Black w/ Rhodium trim http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10842-BlackRhodium.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 50% Off Pelikan 205 Fountain Pens http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10620-White.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 50% Off Porsche Design Slim Line Fountain Pen http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10056-Graphite.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 50% Off Sheaffer Prelude Fountain Pen http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10404-Gunmetal.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 50% Off Lamy Safari Fountain Pen in Neon Yellow http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/10895.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 50% Off Pelikan K600 Ballpoint Pen in Green O' Green http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10036-GreenOGreen.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 25% Off Taccia Covenant Fountain Pen http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10952-JetBlack.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 25% Off Sailor Reglus Fountain Pen http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10550-Bordeaux.jpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 25% Off Monteverde Napa Fountain Pen http://www.penchalet.com/images/products/enlarge/10487-Blue.jpg

Pen Chalet is giving away almost $1000 in prizes to 10 lucky winners! This is our biggest giveaway ever. We will be selecting the winners on Fountain Pen Day, November 7th! Enter to win now: http://www.penchalet.com/fountain_pen_day.aspx

http://www.inkonhand.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/FPD20131.jpg Fountain Pen Day 2013 is coming up quick (on November 1st) and we're celebrating a few different ways: 1. We've given a couple gift certificates to Fountain Pen Day to offer as prizes for their current contest. Information on that can be found on the Fountain Pen Day website. 2, We're offering 5% off all orders now through Fountain Pen Day with the code: FPD2013 enter it at checkout and the discount will be applied. 3. We've got a HUGE raffle going on via our blog in which we're offering tons of bottle of fountain pen ink, gift certificates, and a V2 TWSBI Micarta fountain pen! There's 9 different ways to enter and entries are being accepted through Sunday, November 3rd! More information on all that we're doing at the Zeller Writing Company can be found here: http://www.inkonhand.com/2013/10/fountain-pen-day-2013/ With your participation, we're going to make this year's Fountain Pen Day the best yet! If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me any time! Thanks, Aaron

Hi! Okay, so last year I was all set to do something for fountain pen day, then couldn't (stuff got in the way), so I made a firm decision to get involved this year - then promptly forgot all about it until just now At such short notice, the only decent thing I can come up with is to use the day for a possible meet up of FPNers and other fountain pen users, nerds, collectors, tinkerers, and assorted folk in the Athens, Greece area. Anyway, this meeting won't be anything fancy (short notice and all!), but anyone who's into fountain pens is welcome, newbie or old-timer, including those who don't actually live here but are visiting or just passing through To keep things simple, I thought I'd just park myself on a table in the Starbucks on Mitropoleos and wait - nice central location to make getting there as easy as possible, and guaranteed smoke-free so we can natter without getting choked up by the inveterate chain-smokers crowding every other coffee shop in the Athens area I'll show up at six o'clock and stay a couple of hours. If you want to take part, come over any time during So, to sum up: What: fountain pen people get together in Athens, GreeceWhen: Friday November 1st, show up 6-8pmWhere: Starbucks, the Monastiraki branch - corner of Mitropoleos and Aiolou (Out-of-towners, here's how to find the place; If you're taking the metro you need the MONASTIRAKI stop)See ya there!