What's Your Most Recent Mb Purchase?

[kandarp]

Just bought an Agatha Christie (Silver) from eBay. Its supposedly NOS, I should have it by the weekend

Edited October 3, 2011 by kandarp

[pmhudepo]

Inspired by Lorna's recent purchase:

 

[sunnerd]

A long ink window 139 with war time steel nib at the Hamburg pen show.

It came with the receipt from 1943.

 

P.S. Ok I got better Internet connection now. Here is the photo of MY 139, not the pshrink's.

 

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6210797795_59d01cfb26_b.jpg

 

Another is my 136 with a demo barrel that I finally picked up.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6211312860_7c515970d6_b.jpg

Edited October 4, 2011 by sunnerd

[Michael R.]

A long ink window 139 with war time steel nib at the Hamburg pen show.

It came with the receipt from 1943.

 

How was the Elbe cruise ?

 

Your 139 is really nice.

 

I got a long ink window 136 with a receipt from 1941 which came from the same store and shows the same handwriting as Kai's

 

Also I picked up a Meisterstueck 25 Safety with snake clip, a 246 and finally a copy of Roesler's MB book and a nice modern LE with some issues I will report about later.

 

Great show today and I will try to post pictures later.

 

Cheers from Hamburg

 

Michael

[colrehogan]

I ordered the three new MB inks and also the Collodi ink. Hope the delivery people don't freak out over my porch decorations. I only have 5 grim reapers out so far... :roflmho: Actually, if I count the door decoration that would be 6. I still have at least three more, plus various bats and ghosts, etc..

Edited October 3, 2011 by colrehogan

[shrinknib]

Inspired by Lorna's recent purchase:

 

 

OK that is just cruel teasing me like that :embarrassed_smile:

[shrinknib]

A long ink window 139 with war time steel nib at the Hamburg pen show.

It came with the receipt from 1943.

 

 

I'm sorry, who's pen was that Sir?? :cloud9:

 

Oh and I have a lovely minty 146 coming from Lutz via sunnerd too!

 

Oh and the Diary and Collector book too... someone was nice to me at the Hamburg show..

 

Oh and a few copies of signed Collectible Stars heading downunder as well...

 

Oh and a 142 from germany as well....

 

Think that is all for now... :roflmho:

[sunnerd]

Not particularly a purchase, but considering we have bought a few MB products so I suppose one can consider the following "freebies" from the MB factory tour an indirect purchase :roflmho:

 

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6074/6211309942_eab3378b81_b.jpg

[pmhudepo]

Inspired by Lorna's recent purchase:

 

 

OK that is just cruel teasing me like that :embarrassed_smile:

 

Sorry... I'd seen a pen case like that posted here before and when Lorna showed her purchase, I took a quick look on eBay, found one and well... :ph34r: mine!

 

But don't worry, I should have enough cases or pouches now. Another pen though, perhaps a writer's edition with a fairly wet, springy nib that offers a nice bit of line variation... I'm sure it would fit so nicely in this pen case.

Edited October 4, 2011 by pmhudepo

[shrinknib]

congratulations!

 

[sunnerd]

Inspired by Lorna's recent purchase:

 

 

Also inspired by your purchase I just bought one of these pouches. Got the last one in London

Shrinknib I'll be happy to sell mine to you at the right price! :roflmho:

 

A picture of my haul.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6214417273_4333e1f8bf_b.jpg

Edited October 5, 2011 by sunnerd

[Sidestreaker]

A long ink window 139 with war time steel nib at the Hamburg pen show.It came with the receipt from 1943.P.S. Ok I got better Internet connection now. Here is the photo of MY 139, not the pshrink's.http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6210797795_59d01cfb26_b.jpgAnother is my 136 with a demo barrel that I finally picked up.http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6211312860_7c515970d6_b.jpg

 

Beautiful!

 

:notworthy1: :notworthy1:

 

Congratulations!

[carlosjaviercontreras]

A long ink window 139 with war time steel nib at the Hamburg pen show.

It came with the receipt from 1943.

 

P.S. Ok I got better Internet connection now. Here is the photo of MY 139, not the pshrink's.

 

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6210797795_59d01cfb26_b.jpg

 

Another is my 136 with a demo barrel that I finally picked up.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6088/6211312860_7c515970d6_b.jpg

 

Wow! Congrats Sunnerd!

 

Have you scanned the original receipt? That's something I would love to have a look at.

[shrinknib]

I actually bought the red one in Sydney a month back (and I love it) so thank you, but I yearn for the tan one... :embarrassed_smile:

 

 

 

A picture of my haul.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6214417273_4333e1f8bf_b.jpg

[Alphabet]

No new MB purchases lately. Thinking about boxing up a couple of my pens and mailing back to myself for the thrill of receiving a beautiful pen in the mail.

[sunnerd]

Wow! Congrats Sunnerd!

 

Have you scanned the original receipt? That's something I would love to have a look at.

 

Here it is.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6033/6216136459_901e19bf51_z.jpg

[KJY]

Wow! Congrats Sunnerd!

 

Have you scanned the original receipt? That's something I would love to have a look at.

 

Here it is.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6033/6216136459_901e19bf51_z.jpg

 

Oh what a prices!!

A pot of ink is almost more than the pen nowadays.

[Makar]

I just tried to work out 41.65 DM from 1943 to todays money (best using the CPI - consumer price indicator) and felt queezy. I don't like maths, particularly on an empty stomach. Anybody else want to try and work out how much this pen was relatively worth to the buyer in 1943 (maybe a difficult period to forecast from though...)?

 

Here is the best link I can find to these kinds of calculators: US-German currency conversion tables

 

These currency converters work really well for estimating current relative costs of old projects - can be useful and fun. Just this swapping currency stuff etc. is not working for me today...

 

thanks

Stephen

[sunnerd]

I use the following model:

Dividing the price of L139 from the price of ink = 41.3/0.35 = 118 times.

Nowadays a pot of ink is like 25 USD (at least in Australia) then the pen is USD 2950. I'd say not too far off.

[tanalasta]

Beautiful pictures... and collection. Well done on the find :clap1: :clap1: :clap1: