Prominent Individuals That Collect Fountain Pens

[kauloltran]

Are any of them members of this forum? If you are one, please identify yourself!!

 

-I think Kylie Minogue is a collector

Edited July 20, 2011 by kauloltran

[Scrawler]

Are any of them members of this forum? If you are one, please identify yourself!!

 

-I think Kylie Minogue is a collector

My daughter is a pen collector and a major Kylie fan and wants to know what you base this supposition on.

[2Hearts]

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are known to use Pilot Varsity FPs. SJP had even used one in at least one of the Sex and the City movies. Not sure if they are collectors though.

[Samovar]

The writer Paul Auster uses FP

[somnath1077]

Montblanc was Sir Winston Churchill pen of choice. Montblanc later went on to release a pen named after him.

 

Below is a link to the original Bruckheimer thread which links to photos of his wonderful collection.

 

http://www.fountainp..._1#entry1952838

 

i beg your pardon, i thought he used conway stewarts or maybe onoto.

 

i find it doubtful that he used a german pen during those years.

 

or am i completely mushed up today :embarrassed_smile:

 

rgds.

 

krishna.

 

Yes, Churchill used Conway Stewart and Onoto. That's why Conway Stewart has a Churchill limited edition pen. Also see this post:

 

http://www.fountainp...-churchill-use/

 

Best,

 

Somnath.

 

Who knows which of us is correct, but...

 

That thread is pure speculation.

 

Conway Stewart are not the only company to bring out a Limited Edition pen in his honour. So did Montblanc.

 

Bonhams claim that he was a Montblanc user.

 

http://www.antiquetr...c_fountain_pen/

 

Have a look at this blog:

 

http://writinginstruments.blogspot.com/2010/09/winston-churchill-and-his-pens-from.html

 

This claims that Churchill used Conway Stewart pens. There may be a Mont Blanc commemorative Churchill pen, but I don't believe that Churchill used a German pen during the war.

 

Somnath.

[rockspyder]

There may be a Mont Blanc commemorative Churchill pen, but I don't believe that Churchill used a German pen during the war.

 

He probably got his pen(s) well before the war, and did not hold them accountable...

[georges zaslavsky]

mac arthur was also a fp user/collector as was dwight d eisenhower was also a fp user/collector as well

[Lloyd]

Perhaps....William Jefferson Clinton...

 

Fred

 

But don't don't don't..Don't take my coconuts...

 

Somewhat ironically, Platinum claims that Clinton used a Platinum President fountain pen while in office but I don't know if he collects.

I hope he didn't use it the way he used a cigar....

[Signum1]

I hope he didn't use it the way he used a cigar....

 

@Lloyd

 

In a private setting, he will not encounter the impeachment for JUICY NIB activities. LOL

[max dog]

Based on hearsay from where he shops...

 

David Suzuki and Lamy

 

I've seen a Pelikan beak clip hanging out of his shirt pocket on a show.

[centennial]

 

I've seen a Pelikan beak clip hanging out of his shirt pocket on a show.

 

Then I stand corrected. But who knows, he probably uses both brands

[UltraMagnus]

Montblanc was Sir Winston Churchill pen of choice. Montblanc later went on to release a pen named after him.

 

Below is a link to the original Bruckheimer thread which links to photos of his wonderful collection.

 

http://www.fountainp..._1#entry1952838

 

i beg your pardon, i thought he used conway stewarts or maybe onoto.

 

i find it doubtful that he used a german pen during those years.

 

or am i completely mushed up today :embarrassed_smile:

 

rgds.

 

krishna.

 

Yes, Churchill used Conway Stewart and Onoto. That's why Conway Stewart has a Churchill limited edition pen. Also see this post:

 

http://www.fountainp...-churchill-use/

 

Best,

 

Somnath.

 

Who knows which of us is correct, but...

 

That thread is pure speculation.

 

Conway Stewart are not the only company to bring out a Limited Edition pen in his honour. So did Montblanc.

 

Bonhams claim that he was a Montblanc user.

 

http://www.antiquetr...c_fountain_pen/

 

Have a look at this blog:

 

http://writinginstruments.blogspot.com/2010/09/winston-churchill-and-his-pens-from.html

 

This claims that Churchill used Conway Stewart pens. There may be a Mont Blanc commemorative Churchill pen, but I don't believe that Churchill used a German pen during the war.

 

Somnath.

Honestly, it is quite possible he used all three... at different times, depending on what pen he was given last. It wouldn't surprise me if he was given a montblanc in the inter war period at all, as England had quite a organised effort to make peace with Nazi Germany at that time.

[olivier78860]

Hmmm, not wanting to sound harsh or anything, but some names I read in the posts make me want to trash my fountain pens and to write with bics, not wanting to have anything in common with them.

[UltraMagnus]

Hmmm, not wanting to sound harsh or anything, but some names I read in the posts make me want to trash my fountain pens and to write with bics, not wanting to have anything in common with them.

I am sure more people you hate use bics.

[in the flow]

Children's book writer, Steve Light

 

WOW Thanks--I did not think I would make the cut!

 

hehe, Steve, you make the cut!

[Scrawler]

Hmmm, not wanting to sound harsh or anything, but some names I read in the posts make me want to trash my fountain pens and to write with bics, not wanting to have anything in common with them.

Please do not be so hasty, just give up on Lamy. When his legion of fans find out, they will probably take up the slack left by your boycott and we will have potential new members.

[SHK]

I don't care about prominent status.

Only the human being behind this status count.

You will found out that they are just like you and me.

 

Sascha

[kauloltran]

I think Barbra Streisand is a collector!

[jameswatts]

The critic John Simon, who I believe now writes theater criticism for Bloomberg News (and used to write for such publications as New York Magazine), is a collector and user of fountain pens. In his interview with the Paris Review, he mentions that he writes all his reviews with fountain pens.

[Ernie Wayne]

I wrote that Globe column. A student of mine sold Hanks a pen for a hundred dollars at Paper Source in Boston, and I mentioned that.