What is your most beautiful pen?

[brandon8602]

My most beautiful pen is surely my Parker Sonnet. The fact that it was partially a gift makes it even more precious.

[WOBentley]

At any price see picture below

Below $120... Probably a custom by Dr. Goretex...my Newton pen would be there too but it was over $120 (as would be a custom Dr. Goretex at this point I suspect)... Sadly I don't have pictures handy....

[karmakoda]

Visconti Wall Street Ltd Ed.

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/zz218/Valaccar/P1060338.jpg

Beautiful celluloid

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/zz218/Valaccar/P1060340.jpg

[yuphadee27]

It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm very excited for the Visconti 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee pen.

[elderberry]

That's a tough choice to make - I guess about 50% of the pens I own would qualify and each of them is very attractive in their own right. I just took some pictures of these 2 beauties yesterday and they are definitely on the list: Ferrari da Varese Botticellis, with dark and white mother of pearl respectively.

 

[dickydotcom]

For simple elegant beauty:

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h200/dickydotcom/versaceset.jpg

Dick D

[olivier78860]

My most beautiful pen is the S.T. Dupont Montparnasse XL "beehive". The colour in reality is more honey-like and clearer than on the pic :

http://morastylos.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/o/montparnasse_1.jpg

 

Under $120, I would go for a S.T. Dupont Gatsby "gold dust" (brown lacquer with gold dust in it) I grabbed from the bay.

[Ernest]

My most recent purchase.

Classic Pen Prototype...Tiger Eye

John Mottishaw 0.7mm Cursive Italic 18K Flexible Nib

 

 

[enricof]

That's like asking me which is the most beautiful of my three daughters....unanswerable

 

I fully agree with you (and mine are FOUR...).

 

But if I really had to answer, I'd say Danitrio Mikado tame midori and Pelikan M605 solid blue (got it for 90€!), respectively.

[EP Tech]

My beautiful Intrinsic by Franklin-Christoph!

[womyn]

Cannot decide...

Parker Duofold Blue marble or Kangaroo "Africa"

[whitedot]

My beautiful Intrinsic by Franklin-Christoph!

 

[EP Tech]

My beautiful Intrinsic by Franklin-Christoph!

 

 

Thank-you!

[P.A.R.]

Noodler's Medieval Lapis Ahab. Great color.

[ChuckClark]

Eight years ago I saw a picture of the Montblance writers series pen honoring Miguel de Cervantes for 2005.

I was in love at first sight.

Finally, for my 60th birthday this month, I bought the pen.

Yes I am still in love. I have even been giving away pens in my collection because now I have the "one".

Now I can write in peace.

 

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Edited September 29, 2012 by ChuckClark

[wspohn]

I'll answer one of your questions.

 

For a reasonably priced attractive pen, I would look to a Sheaffer Targa or (with a higher finish level) a Waterman CF.

 

Examples:

 

http://www.rhodo.citymax.com/i/non-rhodo/fa_10.JPG

 

http://www.sheaffertarga.com/images/Sheaffer%20Targa%20Pens/Ref%20list%20new/679s%20tulle%20slimline2.JPG

[ArchiMark]

In terms of more expensive pens, here's one that got away from me on eBay. . . .

 

http://zobeid.zapto.org/image/pens/wahl_deco_01.jpg

 

http://zobeid.zapto.org/image/pens/wahl_deco_02.jpg

 

To me, that's practically the definition a "classic" fountain pen.

 

And it was a factory stub to boot.

 

Lovely pen, my favorite so far.

 

Do you know what model it is?

 

Maybe you figured it out by now, since it's been quite a while since you asked....but the pen is a Wahl Eversharp Oversize Gold Seal Decoband pen....great pens, have a bunch of them....

 

[adamselene]

Impossible question.

 

Why do I keep coming back to my British Duofolds for the answer?

 

Just plain black cigaroid pens, minimal brassy gold furniture.

 

Beautiful to my eyes.

[yotiao]

My recent purchase of Nakaya Portable writer housoge kikyo (blue) with platinum inlay, is probably the most beautiful pen in my small collection:

 

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8173/8046261584_ca65ecbdeb_z.jpg

Nakaya Portable Housoge Fountain Pen Kikyo (Blue) with Platinum Inlay by iamcjun, on Flickr

 

 

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Edited October 2, 2012 by yotiao

[esterbex]

When I hold this one there are no others....Onoto Heritage with silver overlaid cap by Henry Simpole....

 

 

 

 

 

Photos by Neal Laver.