D. Nore Glass Body Fountain Pen

[4September]

Just posted this to show it. I haven't seen one anywhere else except on a post on some other blog, a couple of years ago. It has a dark burgundy glass body and steel nib. Unfortunately the feed fractured and I simply glued it back on with cyanoacrylate. I hope that wasn't foolish.

[Pentangeli]

Glad to see your first post on FPN. It is the first time I've seen and glass pen (barrel & cap). How do you fill it with ink? Does it use a cartridge and/or a converter or is it a piston filler? It is a very nice looking pen with an equally nice leather pen case.

It will also be very interesting to see a writing sample. Did the cyanoacrylate adhesive work well with your repair of the fractured feed? :hmm1:

[4September]

Glad to see your first post on FPN. It is the first time I've seen and glass pen (barrel & cap). How do you fill it with ink? Does it use a cartridge and/or a converter or is it a piston filler? It is a very nice looking pen with an equally nice leather pen case.

It will also be very interesting to see a writing sample. Did the cyanoacrylate adhesive work well with your repair of the fractured feed? :hmm1:

 

I haven't refilled the pen since the feed snapped and was glued. The one thing that doesn't match the materials of the rest of the pen is the shank that holds the nib and feed, and screws into the body. It's a black plastic, and ought to be a resin or metal. Anyway, one refills the pen like any other. It takes either a cartridge or converter. The nib is pretty stiff, and doesn't give much variation in line weight, but seems to flow fine.

 

I recall buying it on the rue du Pont Louis-Philippe in Paris, maybe ten years ago or more, but I don't think the store is there any longer. I do remember it came in many colors of glass including colorless or phantom.

Edited July 24, 2010 by 4September

[Pentangeli]

Thank you for sharing the photos. It looks like the pen is a smooth writer with nice ink flow. The colorless pen ("phantom" or "demonstrator") would have been a nice buy to put in my favorite color of ink if it were still available for sale.

 

In my opinion, it now has some collector value since it is most likely no longer being produced. I hope the feed will work well from the repair that you did and continue to give pleasure in using it.

[Scylla]

I have that same pen, in frosted clear glass.It even has the same leather pen sheath.

[777]

Welcome to the fountain pen network! I love the way that leather pen case "shows" the band of the pen like that. What a cool idea. A glass pen huh, thats new to me. I'll have to try one someday. Anyone know where they can be purchased?

[4September]

I have that same pen, in frosted clear glass.It even has the same leather pen sheath.

Wow! If I had seen a frosted model with gold trim I might have bought that. When I found mine the dealer only had a phantom model. I have never seen another on the web except in one place, a pale lavender glass model.

[4September]

Welcome to the fountain pen network! I love the way that leather pen case "shows" the band of the pen like that. What a cool idea. A glass pen huh, thats new to me. I'll have to try one someday. Anyone know where they can be purchased?

 

The dealer in the Marais in Paris isn't there any longer, as far as I know. I have no clue where to find these or if they are still made any longer.

[Scylla]

I found mine on eBay years ago. I have a dream of a crystal pen, real crystal, not acrylic, and did searches using different words to describe it. Glass was one of the words. I still search for the mythical crystal pen, and have never seen another glass one.

[pkjohansen]

Welcome to the fountain pen network! I love the way that leather pen case "shows" the band of the pen like that. What a cool idea. A glass pen huh, thats new to me. I'll have to try one someday. Anyone know where they can be purchased?

 

I stumbled upon this pen at a shop in Boulder Colorado, on Saturday. Not ever seeing one, of course I had to have it! They had 3 colors in stock, Green, Yellow and a Pinkish red. I don't know how much paid those who purchased in Paris, but at the Two Hands Paperie in Boulder they are $100. Steel nib of course and only Mediums. I didn't ask about volume of stock, and I bought the green one, so not sure if they have green anymore. I'll try to take a shot of the pen if anyone is interested.

 

The shop also had a nice selection of other pens, including a bunch of J.P. Lepine from Paris as well as the std range of colors of VPs, and a couple Kawecos.

[Kimo]

They look nice and I would like to see an example of a green one. $100 seems really pricey for a glass pen with a steel nib, though.

 

Are they particularly heavy? I would imagine that the glass must be a bit thick so they don't break easily and if so they might be noticeably heavier than pens made of acrylic or celluloid.

[rpmoyer100]

I know this is an old post, but I just found mine which is identical to the one pictured. I did not know it was glass, albeit knew it was heavier than usual. It was a gift, and I was trying to find its provenance. Anyone know its value? I assume it is not made anymore.

[Blackandwhite]

My very first post. I own some fountain pens as I write and also draw quite a lot and bought a D.Nore brown glass fountain pen in the Marais, in Paris, back in 2004. Similar to the ones shown here. Since my youth, I used fountain pens as objects to work with. I never thought about collecting them - then one week ago, a friend of mine told me he's collecting fountain pens. So I searched a bit about this ( and some other pens I own, nothing very special but I like all of them )fountain pen and finally arrived here. I must admit fountain pens are interesting instruments and can understand the passion.

 

My D.Nore fountain Pen is the third one from above on the photo.

[Uncle Red]

Welcome Blackandwhite. The glass has a nice tortoise shell pattern to it. You have some very nice pens. I hope you stick around, the more the merrier.

[Zoe]

I was doing a search on D. Nore and this thread came up. I, too, have a similar pen to the first photo, in purple. I bought it in a New Mexico shop about 7 or so years ago.

 

It is lovely to look at but I haven't used it since I bought it.

[pensuponpens]

Well, a search for D. Nore led me here. I have one of the colorless ones, purchased in Cleveland, OH about 14 years ago. It still writes well, but the glass cap has broken where it meets the brass band at its bottom. Superglue works, but enough glass is missing that there is a small gap, which I will fill when I find a suitable sealant.