Famous people's pens

[Bigeddie]

I saw this on the news today:

 

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Putin 18-03-14 sign by Bigeddie100, on Flickr

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Putin et al 18-03-14 sign by Bigeddie100, on Flickr

Putin and others signing some legal documents regarding the annex of Crimea with what looks like 146's and desk stands.

 

[Tadeusz]

I saw this on the news today:

 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/13247873694_134bf3ed26.jpg

Putin 18-03-14 sign by Bigeddie100, on Flickr

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2877/13247535675_5422b7d985.jpg

Putin et al 18-03-14 sign by Bigeddie100, on Flickr

Putin and others signing some legal documents regarding the annex of Crimea with what looks like 146's and desk stands.

 

 

 

Ah, Mont Blanc, annexing more lebensraum since 1906!

[Bigeddie]

The lady behind was interested in the pen too

 

I wonder if this will feature on their advertising material. Maybe only in Russia.

[Albinoni]

 

QUOTE (SweetieStarr @ Apr 7 2009, 05:59 PM)

So Mark Twain used Conklins and people like Winston Churchill, the Queen, Presidents Clinton & Bush and Rick Wakeman (Yes!) use Conway Stewarts. Anyone else?

 

What about old Hollywood stars like Humphrey Bogart?

 

I think we have to keep in mind that prominent figures have often been given pens by penmakers seeking to gain exposure thereby. So while Presidents Clinton and Bush may have been presented with (modern) Conway Stewarts, it's more than a little misleading to state that they are Conway Stewart users. Nor am I sure that the presentation of CS pens to Queen Elizabeth II has led to a displacement of her long and well-documented preference for Parkers.

I read somewhere where the Queen actually used a Parker 51

[Pen Nut]

The Winston Churchill choice of pen keeps coming round. I have read he used Conway Stewart, Onoto and more recently his use of Montblanc gets a mention.

 

His favourite response for me has to be :

 

Lady to Winston : Sir if you was my husband I would poison your tea !!

 

Winston to lady : Madam if you was my wife I would drink it.....

[Ursus]

 

The Winston Churchill choice of pen keeps coming round. I have read he used Conway Stewart, Onoto and more recently his use of Montblanc gets a mention.

Companies certainly love advertizing about Churchill having used their pens. Never the less, both Conway Stewart and Onoto closed (although other companies are now using their names; when a company has been closed for about so long that all the old employees are dead it is difficult to acclaim any kind of continuity apart from the name). MB still stands - but would it not be some kind of a joke if a PM used enemy pens?

[Pen Nut]

Companies certainly love advertizing about Churchill having used their pens. Never the less, both Conway Stewart and Onoto closed (although other companies are now using their names; when a company has been closed for about so long that all the old employees are dead it is difficult to acclaim any kind of continuity apart from the name). MB still stands - but would it not be some kind of a joke if a PM used enemy pens?

 

I agree with you but Bonhams seem to think he did.

[Florida Blue]

I read somewhere where the Queen actually used a Parker 51

 

Yes, the Queen's personal pen (since 1959) has been a burgundy Parker 51 with a gold filled cap. Also Parker has held the royal warrant since 1962. Conway Stewart has given the Queen a few presentation pens, but I'm not sure if she actually uses any of them. She wrote a funny letter to them once. In 2007, they gave her a gold pen for her 60th wedding anniversary and she wrote back to CS stating that she would have to return the pen if it was not functional as she has no use for it if it can't write. She may be a Queen, but she seems very practical.

[Beechwood]

From memory I think HM the Q was actually looking for something plain as opposed to very decorative. There was a recent news story when she was asked to sign something and her pen refused to write, she asked Philip for his and his reply was that he hadnt brought it, the Queens response was that she had told him to do so, in years gone by that would have justified a trip to the Bloody Tower. The photographer to the Sun, a newspaper not well known for its depth of news articles and a Page 3 that should be in braille, offered his pen, to which the Queen put him firmly in his place of 'oh - its a ballpoint.'

[KAC]

Or I should say which pens were used by Prime Minister's .

Or perhaps "Prime Ministers"

[Shaughn]

From memory I think HM the Q was actually looking for something plain as opposed to very decorative. There was a recent news story when she was asked to sign something and her pen refused to write, she asked Philip for his and his reply was that he hadnt brought it, the Queens response was that she had told him to do so, in years gone by that would have justified a trip to the Bloody Tower. The photographer to the Sun, a newspaper not well known for its depth of news articles and a Page 3 that should be in braille, offered his pen, to which the Queen put him firmly in his place of 'oh - its a ballpoint.'

God save Her.

[GTOZack]

the Queen is very practical indeed, I mean she carrys one same pen with her everywhere she goes. God bless the Queen

 

*edit*

 

Chuck Yeager used Parker 51's but generally used a conventional pencil in his shoulder pocket when he is in the air. However deskside he used parker 51 in gray and silver cap

 

There is lead pencil, grease / wax pencil ( the one with string wher you can zip it off to reveal tip. usually black) and a regular ballpoint.

 

I've heard German fighter pilots using Pencil and wax pencils. Theres really rare instances where pilots would bring FP but that is not good idea because when you are above 15,000 ft ( 4500 meter) it splurts ink due to

 

pressure changes and possibly freeze too if you were in non pressurized bomber and or fighter aircraft.

Edited May 19, 2014 by GTOZack

[Biff]

The Winston Churchill choice of pen keeps coming round. I have read he used Conway Stewart, Onoto and more recently his use of Montblanc gets a mention.

 

His favourite response for me has to be :

 

Lady to Winston : Sir if you was my husband I would poison your tea !!

 

Winston to lady : Madam if you was my wife I would drink it.....

I agree that's a great quote. I like this one too:

 

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

-- Winston Churchill

[Ursus]

 

Beechwood, on 19 May 2014 - 16:03, said:

From memory I think HM the Q was actually looking for something plain as opposed to very decorative. There was a recent news story when she was asked to sign something and her pen refused to write, she asked Philip for his and his reply was that he hadnt brought it, the Queens response was that she had told him to do so, in years gone by that would have justified a trip to the Bloody Tower. The photographer to the Sun, a newspaper not well known for its depth of news articles and a Page 3 that should be in braille, offered his pen, to which the Queen put him firmly in his place of 'oh - its a ballpoint.'

Certainly my kind of queen!

[Buckandball1842]

I don't know if anyone here has ever seen "Alone in the Wilderness" on PBS but the gentleman who filmed his time in Alaska in the late 1960s also kept a journal, and in one shot they show him using a Sheaffer snorkel. I don't own it so I couldn't get a screen shot.

[YNY]

In a video clip on the news tonight General Martin Dempsey USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is shown holding what appears to be a fountain pen or rollerball. It is emerald green with a pattern on the barrel that reminds me of an Esterbrook. The overall appearance also reminded me of an Esterbrook but the color was too emerald green in my opinion and I think he would use something more up to date. Maybe a Waterford Kilbarry Green Guilloche fountain pen or rollerball? Does anyone know what pen it might be?

[Freddy]

I don't know if anyone here has ever seen "Alone in the Wilderness" on PBS but the gentleman who filmed his time in Alaska in the late 1960s also kept a journal, and in one shot they show him using a Sheaffer snorkel. I don't own it so I couldn't get a screen shot.

I watched it....and....

 

From Penspotting in Chatter... .Page 29 # 427

Posted 28 March 2010 - 02:59 PM

 

Seen on PBS...Alone in the Wilderness...the story of Dick Proenneke, who built

his own cabin and lived in the Alaskan wilderness for almost 30 years. I spotted

him writing in his journal... using...a Sheaffer WD posted pen...which could have been a snorkel

or touch-down.

 

Fred

 

 

Fred

[Ifni]

Anybody spot any famous folks using an Aurora 88?

[dior523]

Hemingway ususally using Montegrappa I think?

[georges zaslavsky]

Ace Greg Papy Boyington had an estie and a sheaffer valiant.